"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
― Don Marquis
Topic(s):
Poetry
― Don Marquis
More From Don Marquis
- "Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."
- "Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
- "Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
More In Poetry
- "Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."― Archibald MacLeish
- "The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry."― Raoul Vaneigem
- "I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat."― Lea Michele