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

— 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

#become #been #eye #field #had

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

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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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If I had the power, I would ban leggings. ↗

— Jil Sander

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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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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

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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

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

— Carl Sandburg

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