Top 15 Don Marquis Quotes

there are more things
twixt the vermiform appendix
and nirvana than are dreamt of
in thy philosophy horatio

well well boss there is
something to be said
for the lyric and imperial
attitude
believe that everything is for
you until you discover that you are for it
sing your faith in what you
get to eat right up to the
minute you are eaten
for you are going to be eaten

how beautiful is the universe
when something digestible meets
with an eager digestion
how sweet the embrace
when atom rushes to the arms
of waiting atom

breakfast breakfast
i am full of breakfast
and they are at breakfast
in heaven
they breakfast in heaven
all s well with the world

amen said a beetle who had
preceded him into the interior that is the way i
feel myself is it not
wonderful when one arrives at the place
where he can give up his
ambitions and resignedly
nay even with gladness
recognize that it is a far
far better thing to be merged harmoniously
in the cosmic all
and this confortable situation
in his midst
so affected the marauding robin that he perched
upon a blooming twig
and sang until the
blossoms shook with ecstacy
he sang
i have a good digestion
and there is a god after all
which i was wicked enough to doubt
yesterday when it rained'''

demons and fishhooks
he exclaimed
i am losing my personal
identity as a worm
my individuality
is melting away from me
odds craw i am becoming
part and parcel of
this bloody robin
so help me i am thinking
like a robin and not
like a worm any
longer yes yes i even
find myself agreeing
that a robin must live
i still do not
understand with my mentality
why a robin must live
and yet i swoon into a condition of belief

a robin said to an
angleworm as he ate him
i am sorry but a bird
has to live somehow the
worm being slow witted could
not gather his
dissent into a wise crack
and retort he was
effectually swallowed
before he could turn
a phrase

i asked him
why is it that you are so greatly favored
ask rather
said warty bliggens
what the universe
has done to deserve me

a little more
conversation revealed
that warty bliggens considers himself to be
the center of the said
universe
the earth exists to grow toadstools for him
to sit under
the sun to give him light
by day and the moon
and wheeling constellations
to make beautiful
the night for the sake of
warty bliggens

i met a toad
the other day by the name
of warty bliggens
he was sitting under
a toadstool
feeling contented
he explained that when the cosmos
was created
that toadstool was especially
planned for his personal
shelter from sun and rain
thought out and prepared
for him

there is always
a comforting thought
in time of trouble when
it is not our trouble

there is bound to be a certain amount of
trouble running any country
if you are president the trouble happens to you
but if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so
that most of the trouble happens to other people

it is a cheering thought to think
that god is on the side of the best digestion

dear boss i relay this information without any fear that humanity will take warning and reform

it wont be long now it won't be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone