Carl Sandburg
American poet and essayist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is
not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots; they
walk off proud; they can't hear you calling—
Look out how you use proud words.
—Carl Sandburg, American poet and essayist, Primer Lesson, 1922
Posted on January 31, 2000 at 8:15 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
—Carl Sandburg, The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, 1940
Posted on August 26, 1999 at 11:42 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
—Carl Sandburg, Two Nocturnes
Posted on July 24, 2003 at 3:09 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, New York Times
Posted on August 14, 2003 at 7:45 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The English language hasn't got where it is by being pure.
—Carl Sandburg
Posted on December 11, 2001 at 4:50 PM
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