Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
Christopher Morley
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Four
Untold
Known
Innate
Ever
Poets
Children
Poem
Years
Childhood
Poet
Poetry
Greatest
Outgrown
More quotes by Christopher Morley
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
Christopher Morley
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
Christopher Morley
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Christopher Morley
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
Christopher Morley
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
Christopher Morley
The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
Christopher Morley
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Christopher Morley
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
Christopher Morley
The plural of spouse is spice.
Christopher Morley
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
Christopher Morley
Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
Christopher Morley
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
Christopher Morley
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
Christopher Morley
New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
Christopher Morley
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
Christopher Morley
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
