Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.

— Don Marquis

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

— Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

— Don Marquis

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

— Don Marquis

The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

— Don Marquis

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

— Don Marquis

There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him understood him interested ourselves in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.

— Don Marquis