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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Went
Milton
Blind
Saws
Poetry

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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.
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As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
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I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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