Carl Sandburg Quotes about Writing

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

Dance, Writing, Echoes

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

Work, Writing, Carpe Diem

In New York Times 13 Feb. 1959, p. 21

Beware of advice-even this.

Carl Sandburg

Writing, Advice, Design

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.

Carl Sandburg

Life, Writing, Learning

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

Carl Sandburg

Book, Writing, People

Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1983). “Ever the winds of chance”, Univ of Illinois Pr

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg

Girl, Writing, Hair

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Carl Sandburg

Writing, Poetry, Invisible

Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

Carl Sandburg

Hard Work, Writing, Past

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

Carl Sandburg

Book, Writing, Trying

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Carl Sandburg

Writing, Animal, Air

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Writing, Style, Literature

Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.138, University of Illinois Press