Carl Sandburg Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Carl Sandburg quotes and sayings page 7 (deceased poet born on Jan 6, 1878). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 75 we have for him.
“I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.”
“There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.”
“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
“I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.”
“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.”
“I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.”
“The greatest cunning is to have none at all.”
“We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.”
“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.”
“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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