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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 48046 |
| QUOTATION: | Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), U.S. poet. Quoted in The Reader’s Digest (Pleasantville, New York, February, 1978). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Sandburg Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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