#hi

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#child #commanding #give #like #man

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#chicago #decided #eight #fireman #go

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#become #been #eye #field #had

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

#ago #building #happen #i #know

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#except #his #i #man #mouth

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#books #end #hall #happen #nothing

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

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#i #i write #smart #something #too

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years.But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#become #events #hear #hope #i