Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into – Don Marquis

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into – 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
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. – Don Marquis
I never thought Id be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. – Caroline Kennedy