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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

#answer #arithmetic #blue #blue sky #comes

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. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #because #field #hard #hard work

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#either #going #i #writer

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#gift #having #know #never #next

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#always #ambiguity #better #candid #felt

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

#clear #decided #experiments #go #happen

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

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 mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#big #everything #good #i #mean