I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem…

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

— Steven Wright

“Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.”

— Olivia Sudjic

Reading the dictionary helps me express myself better. I can spend hours flicking through a thesaurus, too. It's not about expanding my vocabulary, it's…

— Arlo Parks

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

— Rita Dove

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress…

— Robert Graves

This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose…

— Lyn Hejinian

Every thought was once a poem.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

“If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?”

— Steven Wright

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

— Steven Wright

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

— Charles R. Swindoll

What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's…

— Jimmy Durante

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

— Orrin Woodward

“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an…

— Shefali Zariwala