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
The republic is a dream, Nothing happens unless first a dream
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo,/ Shovel them under and let me work -/ I am the grass; I cover all.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work
(Chicago) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders
The fog comes/ on little cat feet./ It sits looking over/ harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and then moves on.
The machine yes, the machine, never wastes anybody's time, never watches the foreman, never talks back
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.