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
Nothing happens... but first a dream.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Beware of advice-even this.
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.