Bits Quote by Jane Hirshfield

I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the…

— Gabriele d'Annunzio

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to…

— Stephen Dobyns

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when…

— Robert Motherwell

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access…

— Tim Vine

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

— James Russell Lowell

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as…

— Stephen Dobyns

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

— Debra Wilson

A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for…

— Henry Fielding

Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who…

— William Moulton Marston

I'm not a comic. There's twenty five percent of me that doesn't trust people who identify as comics.

— Katya Zamolodchikova

“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer anyone who…

— Søren Kierkegaard