Don Marquis
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
—Don Marquis, Quotation from E. Anthony, O Rare Don Marquis, 1962
Posted on August 12, 2002 at 4:25 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
—Don Marquis, Quotation from E. Anthony, O Rare Don Marquis, 1962
Posted on August 30, 2002 at 6:32 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
—Don Marquis
Posted on June 20, 2001 at 12:20 PM
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