Gelett Burgess
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Biography
Frank Gelett Burgess was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. He was an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, and association with The Crowd literary group.
"To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life."
"there are no roads in all Bohemia !"
"A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go."
"I don't know much about Art, but I know what I like. (p. 24)"
"She doesn't look a day over fifty. (p. 24)"
"You'll feel differently about these things when you're married. (p. 25)"
"It isn't so much the heat... as the humidity. (p. 28)"
"You're a sight for sore eyes. (p. 29)"
"I never saw a Purple Cow I never hope to see one: But I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one."
"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead."
"Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade."
"There is work that is work and there is play that is play there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness."