Gelett Burgess
Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term "blurb."
“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.”
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“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 lies happiness.”
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“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”
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