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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. January 1866 – 18. September 1951
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Famous Gelett Burgess Quotes

“Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"—
I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;
But I can tell you Anyhow
I'll Kill you if you Quote it!”

Gelett Burgess

Poem Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue (1897)
Reacting to the many parodies of his poem.
Confession (1897)

“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!”

Gelett Burgess

The Purple Cow (1895)

“A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.”

Gelett Burgess

Gelett Burgess, The Maxims of Methuselah (1907).

“there are no roads in all Bohemia!”

Gelett Burgess

From the essay Where is Bohemia? http://archive.org/stream/romanceofcommonp00burgiala#page/128/mode/2up in The Romance of the Commonplace (1902).

“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”

Gelett Burgess

From the essay The Sense of Humor http://books.google.com/books?id=y-MhAAAAMAAJ&q="To+appreciate+nonsense+requires+a+serious+interest+in+life"&pg=PA64#v=onepage first published in The Romance of the Commonplace (1902).

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