Transcription of I love you for what you are By Carl Sandburg [ Photo with Poem / Experiment04 ]

Born in Illinois in 1878, Carl Sandburg worked in a poor family environment and was discharged from the army after serving in the American Spanish War and became a newspaper reporter. As a reporter, he wrote poems while participating in political movements and gained fame as a poet when his poetry collection became famous.

He was honest and bold about the city of Chicago and used slang in his poems. He also won the Pulitzer Prize twice, once for poetry and once for his book about Lincoln.


I love you for what you are

By Carl Sandburg

I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be.

I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little.

A satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall. The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstasies of desire are working for a larger and finer growth.

Not always shall you be what you are now. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you and therefore I love you.



This beautiful poem was written in the form of a letter. It seems to be a message that contains advice and concerns from the father to his son. I also have a son who is taller than me now, so I sympathize with the content of this poem a lot.


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The reason why the two yellow tulips in the picture are arranged in this way is to capture the father's concern for his son. In fact, this picture has been cut in half and edited so that both tulips can be seen in detail.


Original Color

Original B&W

I edited it with the hope that both father and son will remain in their memories while living in this world.

Next, I will show you a picture that I transcribed.




I transcribed this poem and left it as a video.





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