Carl Sandburg Quotes

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form…the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wanted-they come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

The more rhyme there is in poetry the more danger of its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

In the spacious highways of books major or minor, each poet is allowed the stride that will get him where he wants to go if, God help him, he can hit that stride and keep it.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.