Humor Quote by Gordon Korman

“O Canada I have not forgotten you, as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision of a bookcase. You are the paddle, the…

— Billy Collins

“Don’t be a poet, my darling The taxidermist for ideas and lost dreams”

— Erna Grcic

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

— Tinie Tempah

“Poetry is cathartic only for the unserious, for in front of the rush of expressive need stands the barrier of form, and when the…

— William H. Gass

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering…

— Christy Hall

“Poems arrive ready to begin. Poets are only the transportation.”

— Mary Oliver

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they…

— James Welch

“There was a little sketch pad with a pink paper cover, a packet of handwritten notes in what looked like my grandmother's handwriting, a…

— Mary Simses

“Autobiographia Literaria" When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls and I…

— Frank O'Hara

“The cushions of my friend's couch were some kind of rubberized velour, the windows were uncurtained, and at five a.m. the birds were all…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Scottish Play Doe was born at 4:13 a.m. on September 6th. The ink was barely dry on his father's new tattoo.”

— Adam Rex