Source: Chicago Poems
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Famous Carl Sandburg Quotes
Source: Chicago Poems
Source: The Complete Poems
“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
“Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.”
“And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.”
Source: Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.”