Quote #59
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
More from Don Marquis
- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
- Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
- Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
- Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
- now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else
- Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.