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 man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.
God, let me remember all good losers.
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.