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
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'.
People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.
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 knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'
The people know what the land knows.
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.
A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted
There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere
If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.