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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
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Went
Milton
Blind
Saws
Poetry

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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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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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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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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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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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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.
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No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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