A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
"Carl August Sandburg" was 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 "as a major figure in contemporary literature," especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). 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", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "“Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.”
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Carl Sandburg on Wikipedia.The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
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.
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
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