Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburgwas an American poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems, Cornhuskers, and Smoke and Steel. He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life",...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 January 1878
CountryUnited States of America
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.