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.

Quote by Carl Sandburg

Topics: Writing Quotes

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs...

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs...

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you...

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you...

Failures are like skinned knees; painful, but superficial.

Failures are like skinned knees; painful, but superficial.

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

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

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

It is healthful and invigorating to fall many times through life, if you get up...

It is healthful and invigorating to fall many times through life, if you get up...

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang...

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang...

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the...

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the...

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after...

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after...

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to...

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to...

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give...

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give...

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang...

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang...

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes...

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes...

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the sole...

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the sole...

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects...

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects...

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.