Quotes by Don Marquis

Don Marquis wrote a daily column for the New York Evening Sun and invented archy, a cockroach who typed free verse by throwing himself at the keys and could not manage capitals, and mehitabel, an alley cat who claimed to have been Cleopatra. Through them he wrote some of the sharpest American light verse of the century. His remark about publishing a book of poetry being like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon is his most quoted line.