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
The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.
Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
The people know what the land knows.
Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.