“Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
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“Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America
“Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg