"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away." ― Carl Sandburg Topic(s): Poetry More From Carl Sandburg "Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder." "Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." "To be a good loser is to learn how to win." More In Poetry "Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen."― Gertrude Stein "Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."― Walter Jon Williams "When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on."― Carl Sandburg