Carl Sandburg : (7)

" Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky – or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. " - Carl Sandburg

" Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are. " - Carl Sandburg

" 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. " - Carl Sandburg

" 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. " - 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. " - Carl Sandburg

" 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. " - Carl Sandburg

" One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. " - Carl Sandburg