Carl Sandburg Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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

• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Poetry, Literature, Synthesis

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  Carl Sandburg

  Respect, Ocean, Sea

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

  Carl Sandburg

  Vocabulary, Diction, Today

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

  Carl Sandburg

  Art, Language, Plastic

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