Air Quote by Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to…

— Carl Sandburg

In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In…

— Karl Pilkington

“A compassionate kind can see the animal as a living being, as a friend, as a family, as soul, as an expression of life.…

— Abhinav Rajput

MY wild animal the only living thing in the world that melts my heart not even my dogs can do that

— MrCountry

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a…

— Temple Grandin

“How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.”

— Rachel Ward

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

— Carl Sandburg