“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.” — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Why did he write to her, “I can’t live without you?” And why did she write to him “I can’t live without… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good.… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
“Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share
