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Faute De Mieux

by Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme-
I never said they feed my heart,
But still they pass my time.




Quotes of the Day

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers

• Robert Wyatt



Poems of the Day
  • Henry van Dyke
    The Maryland Yellow-Throat
    by Henry van Dyke
    While May bedecks the naked trees With tassels and embroideries, And many blue-eyed violets beam Along the edges of the stream, I hear a voice that seems to say, Now near at hand, now far away,