Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
four greatest poem poets
The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being only four years old.
informal women
Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are
fell wall
There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down
built country heaven queer suburban
Heaven is not built of country seats/ But little queer suburban streets.
preach sinner
Only the sinner has a right to preach
attain brain heart honesty madness men pain restrained
Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained
bad mind silly
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
accepted people violent yesterday
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
bad grown luck
We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
inspirational success good-life
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
life broken-heart heartbroken
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
reminding-yourself reminding ifs
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
healing cycling cyclists
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
motivation business inspiration
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.