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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way…

— Rita Dove

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

— Peter Davison

“It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so firmly established as to be able to afford being associated…

— Fran Lebowitz

“There are infinite Card Tricks.”

— Sino Melo

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just…

— Steven Wright

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

— Martha Ronk

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

— Judd Apatow

“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the…

— Norman Mailer

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

For every 15 jokes I write, only one works.

— Deon Cole

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

— David Walton