Quotes by Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

American Poet

Lived from: 1878 - 1967

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 6 january 1878 Died: 22 july 1967

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  • Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.
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  • Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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  • 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.
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  • Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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  • Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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  • Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
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  • Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
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  • Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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  • Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
    Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry in Complete Poems (1950)
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  • Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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  • Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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  • Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
    Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
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  • Tell him to be a fool every so often
    and to have no shame over having been a fool
    yet learning something over every folly.
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  • Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
    Cool Tombs (1918)
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  • The fog comes
    on little cat feet.
    It sits looking
    over the harbor and city
    on silent haunches, and then moves on.
    Fog (1916)
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  • The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • The impact of television on our culture is... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • The name of an iron man goes round the world.
    It takes a long time to forget an iron man.
    Washington Monument by Night in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
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  • The people know the salt of the sea
    and the strength of the winds
    lashing the corners of the earth.
    The people take the earth
    as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
    Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
    The People, Yes (1936)
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