Who is Don Marquis

Donald Robert Perry Marquis ( MAR-kwis; July 29, 1878 – December 29, 1937) was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play (1922–23), a silent film (1926) and a talkie (1937).

Life

Marquis was born and grew up in Walnut, Illinois. His brother David died in 1892 at the age of 20; his father James died in 1897. After graduating from Walnut High School in 1894, he attended Knox Academy, a now-defunct preparatory program run by Knox Co...
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Don Marquis Poems

• Words Are Not Guns
  Put by the sword (a dreamer saith),
  The years of peace draw nigh!
  Already the millennial dawn
  Makes red the eastern sky!...
• With The Submarines
  Above, the baffled twilight fails; beneath, the
  blind snakes creep;
  Beside us glides the charnel shark, our pilot
  through the deep;...
• Visitors
  They haunt me, they tease me with hinted
  Withheld revelations,
  The songs that I may not utter;
  They lead me, they flatter, they woo me....
• Unrest
  A fierce unrest seethes at the core
  Of all existing things:
  It was the eager wish to soar
  That gave the gods their wings....
• To A Dancing Doll
  Formal, quaint, precise, and trim,
  You begin your steps demurely-
  There's a spirit almost prim
  In the feet that move so surely,...

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Don Marquis Quotes

• If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
• Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
• Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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Comments about Don Marquis

• Marquis__young: it’s a lot of stuntin on this app… the same folks that be like i don’t do nothing for a n**** , be secretly geeked behind a dude
• Vhoyde: they don't hate patriarchy itself but rather men who can't fulfill it's duties demanding it's privileges. provide and protect sufficiently and all opposition to it disappears.
• K0e1i2ma: “a pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”~ don marquis
• 5dchief: rina sawayama - eye for an eye (john wick 4 soundtrack) love the song & her voice interesting lyrics & a little confused the only liar was the marquis to the tracker but i don’t remember it playing when they were on screen
• Lsodngtjsjs: “a pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”~ don marquis

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