For every Don Marquis, there were a hundred third-rate poets and insipid paragraphers.
It is also an allusion to Don Marquis' archy and mehitabel poetry.
Don Marquis (1878-1937), author of the fables of archy and mehitabel.
A seminal essay by Don Marquis argues that abortion is wrong because it deprives the embryo of a valuable future.
Don Marquis (born 1935) is an American philosopher whose main academic interests are in ethics and medical ethics.
The man I took for model was Don Marquis, though he was a columnist and not an editor in that earlier century.
Don Marquis once suggested that the chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Don Marquis once wrote, "Human wandering through the zoo, what do your cousins think of you?"