Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
From Carl Sandburg
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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.
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