Quotes by : Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen....

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom....

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves....

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be....

I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.Shovel them under and let me work-- I am the grass; I....