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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 have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#become #book #coming #how #i

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

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

— Jil Sander

#had #i #power #would

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

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#drooping #ends #had #i #known

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

— Carl Sandburg

#except #his #i #man #mouth

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#myself #poetry #some #understand #written

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

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#go #go away #how #made #phantom