Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at TV. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 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.