Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
More Quotes from Carl Sandburg:
I rise out of my depths with my language.Carl Sandburg
I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.
Carl Sandburg
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Carl Sandburg
I hear America, I hear, what do I hear?
Carl Sandburg
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg
The Lawyers, Bob, know too much.
Carl Sandburg
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