"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are naive."
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
"It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important And it is what you are doing when you are doing something you oughtnt..."
"Oh, things are frequently what they seem, And this is wisdoms crown: Only the game fish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down."
"Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him."
"Hark, hark! the lark On windswept bark Freezes against a sky of lead! Now see him stop, Take one small hop, And suddenly keel over dead!"
"The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How do, Isabel, now Ill eat you! Isabel, Isabel, didnt worry. Isabel didnt scream or scurry. She washed her hands, and she straightened her hair up, Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up."
"I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, Ill never see a tree at all."
"yes is a pleasant country... love is a deeper season than reason"
E. E. Cummings"true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who"
E. E. Cummings"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."
E. E. Cummings"I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art."
Gustave Moreau"and liars kill their kind but her,my love creates love only our"
E. E. Cummings"The anxiety to be admired is a loveless passion ... , loud on the hustings, gay in the ball-room, mute and sullen at the family fireside."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge