Don Marquis
Don Marquis
Donald Robert Perry Marquiswas a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play, a silent movieand a talkie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 July 1878
CountryUnited States of America
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.
There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.
Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.