Poetry Quotes by Carl Sandburg · Page 2

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

— Carl Sandburg

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

— Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a…

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

— Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

— Carl Sandburg

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite…

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

— Carl Sandburg

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

— Carl Sandburg

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on…

— Carl Sandburg

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if…

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear…

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

— Carl Sandburg