Showing posts with label Carl Sandburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carl Sandburg. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

A poetic view of Arithmetic

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       Recently I found -- and have been musing over -- this poetic quote by  poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) : Arithmetic is where the ans...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Heart Arithmetic

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      During these days of protest and politics and pandemic, a diversion -- some playful thoughts about LOVE from poet Carl Sandburg (1878...
Monday, April 27, 2020

National Poem-in-your-Pocket Day -- April 30, 2020

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     The following stanza by  award-winning children's author,  Beatrice Schenk de Regniers , (1914-2000), has led to an annual celebrat...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

I am THANKFUL for . . . mathematics, poetry . . .

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Today as I am preparing for Thanksgiving -- with its guests and travel and remembering -- my thoughts have turned back to Carl Sandburg (18...
Monday, April 15, 2019

If I had a million lives to live . . .

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     This posting features Carl Sandburg's "Humdrum," a poem that reflects on "million."  (This poem and others by S...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Can numbers be a bridge to understanding. . . ?

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Fifty-Fifty      by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)        W hat is there for us two        to split fifty-fifty,        to go halvers on? ...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

"Mathematics" & "Poetry" in the same sentence!

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Thanks to Google for helping me find things -- for example, this quote from Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun  :      Poetry is a form of ...
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Friday, May 16, 2014

Pound on poetry and mathematics

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HERE at PoetryFoundation.org we find an article by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), published in POETRY Magazine in 1916, in which Sandburg of...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Free vs Constraints -- Sandburg - Frost

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One of the delights of investigation -- in library books or on the internet or walking about in the world -- is that one bit of information ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

A Prayer of Numbers

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     Whether our language is music or mathematics, computer code or cookery --  as we learn to love the language and treat it with good car...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

The wind, counting

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     Who can ever forget      listening to the wind go by      counting its money      and throwing it away?
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Finding poems with "numbers"

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     Here's a quick and enjoyable activity:      Go to the website for The Poetry Foundation.    Browse for a bit and, when you have co...