--- title: "4 Carl Adamshick Quotes - Famous Poet" description: "American poet... | Carl Adamshick is an American poet. He is the author of two poetry collections, Curses and Wishes, winner of the 2010 Walt Whitman a..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-carl-adamshick-72248.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Carl Adamshick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-carl-adamshick-72248.jpg) # Carl Adamshick (1968) Poet **4** quotes in **5** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Carl Adamshick is a poet. ## Quick Facts About Carl Adamshick Born November 30, 1968 Profession Poet ## About Carl Adamshick American poet... \| Carl Adamshick is an American poet. He is the author of two poetry collections, Curses and Wishes, winner of the 2010 Walt Whitman award of the Academy of American Poets and Saint Friend, published in 2014. Adamshick was the editor and publisher of Tavern Books. ## Quotes by Carl Adamshick > [“I love incorrectly There is a solemnity in hands, the way a palm will curve in accordance to a contour of skin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-adamshick/i-love-incorrectly-there-is-a-solemnity-in-hands-the-way-a-palm-will/) Carl Adamshick [Journey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/journey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76d/carl-adamshick-72248_journey_i-love-incorrectly-there-is-a-solemnity_7064.jpg) > [“Oblivion and significance/brush our bones, leave us weeping for strangers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-adamshick/oblivion-and-significance-brush-our-bones-leave-us-weeping-for/) Carl Adamshick [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c2/carl-adamshick-72248_even-though_oblivion-and-significance-brush-our-bone_92504.jpg) > [“The sadness isn’t their sadness. The sadness is the way they will never unpack the rucksack of happiness again. They’ll never surface…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-adamshick/the-sadness-isn-t-their-sadness-the-sadness-is-the-way-they-will/) Carl Adamshick [Happiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6c/carl-adamshick-72248_happiness_the-sadness-isn-t-their-sadness-the-sadn_1897363.jpg) > [“There are days when I wake/ and find my face is a hole/ and I have nowhere to hang my mask.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-adamshick/there-are-days-when-i-wake-and-find-my-face-is-a-hole-and-i-have/) Carl Adamshick [Mask](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mask/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b91/carl-adamshick-72248_quote_there-are-days-when-i-wake-and-find-my-f_1902317.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-adamshick/#itemlist", "name": "Carl Adamshick Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I love incorrectly There is a solemnity in hands, the way a palm will curve in accordance to a contour of skin, the way it will release a story. 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