Carl Sandburg

Novelist, Author

1878 – 1967

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Who was Carl Sandburg?

Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor best known for poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat".

Famous Quotes:

  • Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
  • Nothing happens unless first a dream.
  • Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
  • I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
  • In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
  • Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come.
  • Who put up that cage?Who hung it up with bars, doors?Why do those on the inside want to get out?Why do those outside want to get in?What is this crying inside and out all the time?What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
  • One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
  • The republic is a dreamNothing happens unless first a dream.
  • A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

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Born
Jan 6, 1878
Galesburg
Also known as
  • Sandburg, Carl
Spouses
Children
Ethnicity
  • Swedish American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Lombard College
    (1898/10 - 1902/05)
Lived in
  • Elmhurst
  • Milwaukee
  • Flat Rock
Died
Jul 22, 1967
Flat Rock

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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