Amusing Quote by Christopher Hitchens

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

— Billy Collins

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry.…

— Edwin Morgan

One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.

— Brett Gelman

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could.…

— Parminder Nagra

Let's just say that most people, when learning a new language, are only interested in 'funny' words.

— Josephine Jobert

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short…

— Patrick deWitt

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

— James Broughton

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

— William Collins

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to…

— David Ives

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry,…

— Spoken Reasons

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind…

— Victoria Chang

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

— Michael Donaghy