Quotes About Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

The first thing I did on television was a PBS thing where I played a priest. It was a Walt Whitman or Carl Sandburg story - I can't quite remember - but I was a turn-of-the-20th-century priest kind of guy. Never saw it; don't know if I was any good or not.

Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Blowing,Blowing The gray slabs Will lose you the winds will flick you away In a whiff

The moon is a cadaver and a dusty mummy and a damned rotten investment.

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.