Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Carl Sandburg, (Jan 6 1878-1967), US poet, biographer; He is remembered for his vigorous free verse in The People, Yes, 1936 and his biography of Lincoln.