Honey And Salt Quotes

“Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June.”
― Carl Sandburg, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“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, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“One Parting

Why did he write to her,
"I can't live without you"?
And why did she write to him,
"I can't live without you"?
For he went west, she went east,
And they both lived.”
― Carl Sandburg, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“Love is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonely "

love is a deep and a dark and a lonely
and you take it deep take it dark
and take it with a lonely winding
and when the winding gets too lonely
then may come the windflowers
and the breath of wind over many flowers
winding its way out of many lonely flowers
waiting in rainleaf whispers
waiting in dry stalks of noon
wanting in a music of windbreaths
so you can take love as it comes keening
as it comes with a voice and a face
and you make a talk of it
talking to yourself a talk worth keeping
and you put it away for a keen keeping
and you find it to be a hoarding
and you give it away and yet it stays hoarded

like a book read over and over again
like one book being a long row of books
like leaves of windflowers bending low
and bending to be never broken”
― Carl Sandburg, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“The sun touches them off with shot gold of an evening,
with a mother’s grey eyes singing to her children.”
― Carl Sandburg, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“The wind carves sand into shapes
Endless the fresh designs,
Wind and ice patient beyond telling.
Ice can tip mountains over,
Ice the giant beyond measure.
And the sun governs valley lights,
Transforms hats into shoes and back again
Before we are through any long looking.”
― Carl Sandburg, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“There are hungers
for a nameless bread
out of the dust
of the hard earth,
out of the blaze
of the calm sun.”
― Carl Sandburg, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“like a book read over and over again
like one book being a long row of books
like leaves and windflowers bending low
and bending to be never broken”
― Carl Sandburg, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“Speak to the branches of spring
and the surprise of blossoms:
they too hope for a good year.”
― Carl Sandburg , Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature

“The keepers of wisdom testify a heap of ashes
means whatever was there went out burning.”
― Carl Sandburg, Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature