At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who…

“The word poetry comes from the Greek word poiesis which just means “a making”. So if you’ve made it, it’s poetry. Even if it’s…

— Benedict Smith

“Well, we have a saying where we come from," said Louise. "Curiosity killed the cat." "And satisfaction brought him back," Been added.”

— W.D. Newman

Well with girls I don't get no respect. I had a blind date. I waited two hours on the corner. A girl walked by.…

— Rodney Dangerfield

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

— George Carlin

“I found him in the kitchen, at the table in the bay window, already eating his cereal. “I was going to fix you breakfast,”…

— Rachel Hawthorne

“I want a big breakfast," said Fuchsia at last. "I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.”

— Mervyn Peake

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my…

— Alexandria Clarke

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine.

— Meena Harris

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi