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Carl Sandburg, American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Carl Sandburg, American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

'I've written some poetry I don't understand myself' - Carl Sandburg- Designed by laimutyy

Carl Sandburg: Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg: Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

A Quote about poetry by Carl Sandburg: "Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."

A Quote about poetry by Carl Sandburg: "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

BECAUSE I AM CARL - THAT'S WHY

'I've written some poetry I don't understand myself' - Carl Sandburg- Designed by laimutyy

Carl Sandburg was one of the greatest of American writers and poets. He describes the hardscrabble nature of Chicago in his poem of the same name, referencing the City of the Big Shoulders and assailing critics who only care to see crime, poverty, and moral decay. Sandburg responds: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, ...