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.

Quote by Carl Sandburg

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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This...

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This...

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.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me...

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me...

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes...

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes...

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.

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...

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...

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out...

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out...

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

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...

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary...

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary...

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.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and...

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and...

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask,...

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask,...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your...

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...

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...