“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.” — Carl Sandburg | V2Melody

“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”

Presenting poetry as an evocative exchange between sound, image and imagination · Essay or prose remark, source often cited without precise reference

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Poetry

About Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

6 January 1878–22 July 1967

Carl Sandburg, born 6 January 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois, and dead 22 July 1967 in Flat Rock, North Carolina, became one of the most recognizable American writers of the twentieth century: a poet of factories and prairies, a journalist of civic life, a collector and performer of folk songs, a novelist and children’s…

More by Carl Sandburg

Poems by Carl Sandburg

More remarks by Carl Sandburg

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

Expressing the moral possibility present in every human encounter · Prose remark, commonly attributed to Sandburg

“Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.”

A wry image of experience as gradual, revealing and occasionally painful · Prose remark, commonly attributed to Sandburg

Despair
Life

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

Celebrating the vitality and practicality of everyday speech · Prose remark, commonly associated with The American Songbag

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Language