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

#birds #clouds #fly #go #many

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #burn #consolation #could #i

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

— Carl Sandburg

#get #think #till #title #up

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

— Carl Sandburg

#been #before #born #grand #had

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

— Carl Sandburg

#enough #guidance #here #needed #poems

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

— Carl Sandburg

#girl #go #hair #i #me

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#actually #enjoyed #going #i #puzzled

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

— Carl Sandburg

#forget #like #others #remember #slept

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

#brooks #corner #editors #i #later

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#going #i #idealist #know #way