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Ordering a man to write a poe...

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

Let the gentle bush dig its r...

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

Poetry is a phantom script te...

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

To work hard, to live hard, t...

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

You remember some bedrooms yo...

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

I had taken a course in Ethic...

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.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

I am an idealist. I don't kno...

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

We don't have to think up a t...

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

A man may be born, but in ord...

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

Often I look back and see tha...

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

I have become infected, now t...

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

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

My room for books and study o...

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 343 quotes

I have in later years taken t...

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

Calling it off comes easy eno...

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

I had been keeping an off eye...

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

Strange things blow in throug...

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

There have been as many varie...

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

The moon is a friend for the ...

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

Shame is the feeling you have...

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

I wrote poems in my corner of...

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.

Carl Sandburg 343 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....