Carl Sandberg Quotes

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

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There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

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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.

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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

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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.

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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor the poems themselves were enough.

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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

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Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

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