I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Quote by Carl Sandburg

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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon...

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon...

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when...

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when...

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 an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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.

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

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

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.

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...

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

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...

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

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

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...

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a...

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a...

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.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts...

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts...

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;...

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;...

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and...