Carl Sandburg

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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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. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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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. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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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. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

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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. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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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

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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. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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