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
Come on, you Do you want to live forever?
A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.
If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.
So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.
Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.