What is your opinion on Carl Sandburg?

[Warren]

As a kid in the south in the '60s, we had the six volumes in our house. Since I would read anything I could get my hands on, I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. The poetry of Sandburg is timeless. The last sentences of The War Years will stay with me forever:

"Evergreen carpeted the stone floor of the vaults. On the coffin set in a receptacle of black walnut they arranged flowers carefully and precisely, they poured flowers as symbols, they lavished heaps of fresh flowers as though there could never be enough to tell either their hearts or his.
And the night came with great quiet.
And there was rest.
The prairie years, the war years, were over."

Sanburg was not a perfect door-keeper. But he opened the door for me.