#christopher morley

[pierppasolini]

All About Alice (1972) // dir. Ray Harrison

[ozu-teapot]

All About Alice | Ray Harrison | 1972

Ken Sprague, Christopher Morley

[bluesandbarebones]

To A Child Christopher Morley The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Still young enough to be a part Of Nature's great impulsive heart, Born comrade of bird, beast, and tree And unselfconscious as the bee—

And yet with lovely reason skilled Each day new paradise to build; Elate explorer of each sense, Without dismay, without pretense!

In your unstained transparent eyes There is no conscience, no surprise: Life's queer conundrums you accept, Your strange divinity still kept.

Being, that now absorbs you, all Harmonious, unit, integral, Will shred into perplexing bits,— Oh, contradictions of the wits!

And Life, that sets all things in rhyme, may make you poet, too, in time— But there were days, O tender elf, When you were Poetry itself!

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.” ― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels.

[dabiconcordia]

The Furnace

At night I opened The furnace door: The warm glow brightened The cellar floor. The fire that sparkled Blue and red, Kept small toes cosy In their bed.

As up the stair So late I stole, I said my prayer: Thank God for coal! by Christopher Morley

[symphonyoflovenet]

There is only one success, he said to himself—to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Morley

[nobeerreviews]

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

-- Christopher Morley

(Bucharest, Romania)

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Favorite BOOK about Books

Round 1

Parnassus on Wheels (Christopher Morley) VS Possession (A.S. Byatt) VS The Door-to-Door Bookstore (Carsten Sebastian Henn)

Parnassus on Wheels

Possession

The Door-to-Door Bookstore

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Voting ended onMay 5

NO ANTIPROPAGANDA PLEASE

Propaganda under the cut

The Door-to-Door Bookstore:

Very sweet German book about how the love of books can build a community. It's hardly an original theme, but I always love it.