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

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to...

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to...

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and...

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and...

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in...

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in...

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it...

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it...

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die,...

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die,...

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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...

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.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends....

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular...

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular...

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...

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after...

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could...

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could...

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems...

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems...

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of...

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of...

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.