I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.Carl Sandburg
I am the cause of the Sphinx,
The voiceless, baffled, patient Sphinx.
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The night is a lover of mine .
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Hour by hour the caissons reach down to the rock of the
earth and hold the building to a turning planet.
Carl Sandburg
Speak softly-the sacred cows may hear.
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