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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
Explore more quotes by Carl Sandburg

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"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."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

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