David McCord Quotes

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I know a little man both ept and ert.
An intro-? extro-? No, he's just a vert.
Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane,
His image trudes upon the ceptive brain.

When life turns sipid and the mind is traught,
The spirit soars as I would sist it ought.
Chalantly then, like any gainly goof,
My digent self is sertive, choate, loof.

David McCord

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

David McCord

He takes the long review of things;
He asks and gives no quarter.
And you can sail with him on wings
Or read the book. It's shorter.

David McCord

The decent docent doesn't doze;
He teaches standing on his toes.
His student dassn't doze and does,
And that's what teaching is and was.

David McCord

Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit.

David McCord

Still for us where Cottons mather In the spring the Willas cather As of yore.

David McCord

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

David McCord

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

David McCord

David McCord

David McCord

Born: December 15, 1897

Died: April 13, 1997 (aged 99)

Bio: David Thompson Watson McCord was an American poet and college fundraiser.

Known for:

Every Time I Climb a Tree (1967)
In Sight of Sever, Essays from Harvard (1963)
In honor of Nathan Marsh Pusey (1953)
The Star in the Pail (1975)

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