Austin O'Malley
Austin O'Malley
mean writing successful
It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.
children causes beats
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
truth worship enough
A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
mother liars lying
The perjurer's mother told white lies.
book doors circus
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
eye perfect criticism
The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.
photography color oil
Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.
justice hatred may
Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
son doors heaven
The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.
plant grain cockles
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
hell drunkards
There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.
age passionate mouths
The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
poet clock repeats
A small poet repeats himself like a clock.
death silence may
And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.