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
Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
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.
Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.
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?
Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.