Quote of the Day (Carl Sandburg, on Poetry As ‘The Opening and Closing of a Door’)

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.”—Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and biographer Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Good Morning America (1928)

Quote of the Day (Carl Sandburg, on Time as ‘The Coin of Your Life’)

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”—Poet-biographer Carl Sandburg, at his 85th birthday party, January 6, 1963, quoted in The Best of Ralph McGill: Selected Columns (1980) by Ralph McGill, edited by Michael Strickland, Harry Davis, and Jeff Strickland