Carl Sandburg quotes - page 3

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read. (Carl Sandburg)
After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars. View quote
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors. View quote
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. View quote
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman. View quote
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are. View quote
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building. View quote
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor. View quote
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. View quote
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her. View quote
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. (Carl Sandburg)
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. View quote
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. View quote
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. View quote
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. View quote
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. View quote
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. View quote
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. View quote
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Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. View quote
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. View quote
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. (Carl Sandburg)
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty. View quote
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out. View quote
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. View quote
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. View quote
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