Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinleywas a Pulitzer Prizewinning American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 March 1905
CountryUnited States of America
shapes satisfaction neighbor
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
garden goal creation
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
loss night important
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.
thieves aging
Time is the thief you cannot banish.
now-and-then trash reader
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
mom mother brave
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.
christmas dimes nickels
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
views house heaven
I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.
summer winter white
The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.
boys men knives
Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.
broken lovers ethics
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
suffering ingredients hospitality
suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.
satisfaction household seeing
There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.
parent ramp terrible
Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.