Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg makephantompoetry Change image and share on social
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. Carl Sandburg chicagodantedifference Change image and share on social
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. Carl Sandburg damndiehard Change image and share on social
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. Carl Sandburg ascotblackdroop Change image and share on social
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. Carl Sandburg fenceloveneighbor Change image and share on social
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg carefulcoindetermine Change image and share on social
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors. Carl Sandburg agreebrookcorner Change image and share on social
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. Carl Sandburg brownguidanceneed Change image and share on social
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. Carl Sandburg answerarithmeticblue share on social
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. Carl Sandburg agocuriousdead Change image and share on social
