Quote #61
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
More from Don Marquis
- prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
- Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
- Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
- Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
- Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
- Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.