Blood Quote by Jack London

“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .”

— Wallace Stegner

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there…

— Kate Clinton

Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

— Felix Dennis

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

— Carl Sandburg

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

“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my…

— Harley King

I also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.

— David Cross

Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.

— Dov Davidoff

“Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.”

— Michael P. Naughton

“There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either.”

— Robert Graves

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

— Louise Glück