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
Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
What if they gave a war and nobody came?
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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.
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.