Poem Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue (1897)
Reacting to the many parodies of his poem.
Confession (1897)
Frank Gelett Burgess:
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Frank Gelett Burgess: Frases en inglés
“A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.”
Gelett Burgess, The Maxims of Methuselah (1907).
“there are no roads in all Bohemia!”
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.”
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).
