Comedy Quote by Kate Clinton

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

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which…

— N. Scott Momaday

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

— Bo Burnham

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry”

— Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

— Lorrie Moore

“It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?”

— David S. Cross

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

— Theodore Roethke

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

— W. S. Merwin

“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by reason or…

— Vaddey Ratner

It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the…

— Steven Wright