Quotes from Christopher Morley

Have faith in poets, for they have not been ashamed to tell you that men suffer. They have not been afraid to look life in the face: and often the encounter is more comforting than you had expected.

The poet pursues the trouble in your heart as pitilessly as he has ferreted out his own.

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, the footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.

Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

We've had bad luck with our kids — they've all grown up.