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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#feeling #loves #man #shame #she

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#after #between #chicago #dante #difference

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#get #good #i #kinds #knew

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

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#day #everything #gonna #good #i

'Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#anyone #artist #believed #clown #comes

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#before #believe #built #clown #coming

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#instinct #lost #love #our #protect

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing. ↗

— Jil Sander

#basic #comes #feel #give #great

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not. ↗

— Nia Long

#after #brian #going #i #me