What did Carl Sandburg mean by: Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. - Carl Sandburg Writer · USA Copy
+ Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sandburg, Carpe Diem, Work, Writing, 0 - Carl Sandburg Writer · USA
+ Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sandburg, Attitude, Time, 0 - Carl Sandburg Writer · USA
+ There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sandburg, Literature, 0 - Carl Sandburg Writer · USA
+ Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sandburg, Fossils, Rocks, Wings, 0 - Carl Sandburg Writer · USA
+ Love your neighbor as yourself but don’t take down your fence. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sandburg, Literature, Self-love, 0 - Carl Sandburg Writer · USA
+ To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sandburg, Effort, Hard Work, 0 - Carl Sandburg Writer · USA
+ Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sandburg, Math, Numbers, Pigeons, 0 - Carl Sandburg Writer · USA
+ Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Carl Sandburg, Entrepreneur, Happiness, Laughter, 0 - Carl Sandburg Writer · USA
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
