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Famous Carl Sandburg Quotes
“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”
“I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.”
“Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.”
“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.”
“Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.”
“We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.”
“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.”
“I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.”
“I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.”
“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”
“I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.”
“We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.”
“I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.”
“There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.”