Carl Sandburg
Carl SandburgAnger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading into horizons two swift for explanations.
