About Carl Sandburg:
Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."
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Carl SandburgI couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
Carl SandburgI decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Carl SandburgI have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl SandburgI have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Carl SandburgWe had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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