I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good…

“In the shadow of skyscrapers, half-nude men in dugouts cast nets into the lagoon. The work of arms and shoulders. I think of Auden’s…

— Teju Cole

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

— Titian

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

— Denise Levertov

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

— A. E. Housman

“There is a thin line between poetry and word salad.”

— Richard Carl Evans

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects…

— Bill Watterson

I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.

— Walter Becker

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want…

— Ani DiFranco

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.

— Karl Pilkington

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

— Dick Gregory

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing…

— Chris Hardwick

Often, when you're in some of these writing rooms for... and the most restrictive is network television, right? They say, 'Wow, that's a great…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my…

— Mike Stud

“Earth never grieves, I thought, walking across the park, watching seagulls cruising greedily above the ground looking for heaven knows what. Don't you think…

— Philip Larkin

“Because his words might be a line, but it’s a damn good line.”

— Jordan Marie