Gelett Burgess Quotes


There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.


Citations

Burgess, Gelett. The Romance of the Commonplace. Elder and Shepard, 1902, p. 288.

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Gelett Burgess
Gelett Burgess
  • Born: January 30, 1866
  • Died: September 18, 1951
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author

Frank Gelett Burgess was an American 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.