#pen

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#awake #eyes #morning #open #open your eyes

Nothing happens unless first we dream. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#first #happens #nothing #unless

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#about #closing #door #during #guess

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 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 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

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

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#everything #getting #happening #i #just

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities. ↗

— Jil Sander

#happen #i #i feel #new #open

I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#concrete #could #down #each #fast