March 21, 2014

Good Morning! (M's are wild today...)

Today is the birthday of Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) who said:

“In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespeare. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.”

and

“I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea.”

It is also the birthday of Phyllis McGinley (1905 – 1978) who wrote:

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”

and

“Ah, snug lie those that slumber beneath conviction's roof.

Their floors are sturdy lumber, their windows weatherproof.

But I sleep cold forever, and cold sleep all my kind,

For I was born to shiver in the draft from an open mind.

Born nakedly to shiver in the draft of an open mind.”

Happy Birthday to Matthew Broderick (1962 - ) who said:

“I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.”

Finally, it is the birthday of Mark Waid (1962 - ) who said:

“Socrates should have written comics.”