Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), full name Carl August Sandburg, was a US poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He was three times Pulitzer Prize winner: two times for his poetry and once for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Hog butcher for the world,

Tool maker, stacker of wheat,
Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the big shoulders.
- Chicago

• The fog comes in on little cat feet.

- Fog

• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go

to hell after all would be too damned hard.
- The People, Yes

• The machine yes the machine

Never wastes anybody's time
Never watches the foreman
Never talks back.
- The People, Yes

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- The People, Yes

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

- The New York Times, February 13, 1959

Martin Buber