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I think that never shall I see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
#OgdenNash
If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971) American poet
Poem (1930-12-27), “More About People,” The New Yorker
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/nash-ogden/76284/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ogdennash #financialndependence #financialsecurity #job #money #paycheck #retirement #salary #selfsufficiency #work
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
—Ogden Nash
I think that I shall never see
A ⸺ lovely as a tree.
Which poem do you know?
"A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor" by Ogden Nash (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
#OgdenNash #Poetry #Poem #Poet #ThirteenthFloor #Thirteen #Octobereen #Halloween #Literature #Art #Performance #PoetryReading
#PoemsForHalloween
#Quotes #BigotedMinds #Facts #OgdenNash
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)
August 19 is the birthday of #American #poet #OgdenNash who we #quote and back with a picture of a #Fallbrook #sunset. If this #quotograph speaks to you, please repost it.
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
Contrariwise, my blood runs cold
When little boys go by.
For little boys as little boys,
No special hate I carry,
But now and then they grow to men,
And when they do, they marry.
No matter how they tarry,
Eventually they marry.
And, swine among the pearls,
They marry little girls.
– Ogden Nash, from “Song to Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children”
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
-- Ogden Nash
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sticking it to the banks
The words came with a smile in light, unconventional rhyme.
Delicately phrased nonsense.
Witty, intelligent wordplay conveying serious thought.
Below, one of Ogden Nash’s five hundred poems, written in 1935 in the midst of a career that spanned the middle part of the twentieth century.
His topic: banks.
And the people understood what Nash was talking about.
"Man is an animal that is split in half down the middle and walks on the split end."
Ogden Nash
Brendan O'Kane @bokane doing the heavy lifting again - this time standing up for the 散曲. A solid example:
王和卿 - 長毛小狗
Wang Heqing (late 13th c.) - On a Small Long-Haired Dog
醜如驢，小如豬，
山海經檢遍了無尋處。
遍體渾身都是毛，我道你有似個成精物，
咬人的笤帚。
This misbegotten little thing
Is nowhere to be found in the Shan-hai jing.
Ball of fur? Malevolent sprite?
Or dust-mop with a nasty bite?
#中文#散曲 #诗 #OgdenNash
https://www.burninghou.se/p/in-defense-of-the-relatively-low-quality
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“A girl who's bespectacled
“May not get her nectacled.”
To call Ogden Nash a poet, or a satirist, or a humorist is to do him an injustice.
For he was all of these.
Plus, a ‘laughing philosopher,’ according to admiring literary critics.
When people asked Nash what he did for a living, he would say he was a “worsifer.”
[His special talent was making up words.]
#history #photography #OgdenNash #money #bankers #MoneyLending #economy #rich
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
—Ogden Nash
#Quotes #Bigots #Facts #OgdenNash
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)
Je ĉi dato en 1902 naskiĝis Ogden Nash, poeto kaj spritulo, kiu ofte kreis nekutimajn rimojn por sia humuraj mallongaj poemoj. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles,_1949.jpg
Musical Interlude: Doing more Kurt Weill today...here's another favorite rendition, by his wife, of one of my favorite Weill tunes, with lyrics by Ogden Nash!
"Speak Low," performed by Lotte Lenya.
#MusicalInterlude #KurtWeill #OgdenNash #SpeakLow #BestLoveSongs
The Kangaroo, #OgdenNash (fm "Candy is Dandy")
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