Don Marquis

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

i have had my ups and downsbut wotthehell wotthehellyesterday sceptres and crownsfried oysters and velvet gownsand today i herd with bumsbut wotthehell wotthehelli wake the world from sleepas i caper and sing and leapwhen i sing my wild free tunewotthehell wotthehellunder the blear eyed mooni am pelted with cast off shoonbut wotthehell wotthehell

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

my master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating stand "pete s holiday

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cause greater personalities than themselves

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have used it upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living on it....what man calls civilizationalways results in deserts....men talk of money and industryof hard times and recoveriesof finance and economicsbut the ants wait and the scorpions waitfor while men talk they are making deserts all the timegetting the world ready for the conquering antdrought and erosion and desertbecause men cannot learn....it wont be long now it wont be longtill earth is barren as the moonand sapless as a mumbled bone

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.