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
It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
The past is a bucket of ashes
Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.
To those who had ordered them to death one of them said: 'We die because the people are asleep... you will die because the people will awaken'.
I am! I have come through! I belong!
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar...
Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
I am an idealist. I believe in everything — I am only looking for proofs.