I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
More Quotes from Carl Sandburg:
No Hamlet hold my jaws and speakHow jokes are gone and empty is my mouth.
Carl Sandburg
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.
Carl Sandburg
The greatest the city could offer me, a stranger, was statues of the kings, on all corners bronzes of kings-ancient bearded kings who wrote books and spoke of God's love for all people-and young kings who took forth armies out across the frontiers splitting the heads of their opponents and enlarging their kingdoms.
Carl Sandburg
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
Carl Sandburg
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg
You for me, kiss me, pull me by the ear.
Carl Sandburg
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Rejection QuotesBeing a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
Ruby Wax
It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
Gary Oldman
I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
Marvin Olasky