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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
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Milton
Blind
Saws
Poetry
Went

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This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death I am alive!
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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 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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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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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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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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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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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fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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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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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
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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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