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The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
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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
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
Christopher Morley
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
Christopher Morley
Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
Christopher Morley
