Competition Quote by Malachy McCourt

If you sit down to write a limerick, you find yourself straddling two histories: the history of the limerick form itself, which stretches back…

— Michael Rosen

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

— Frank McCourt

Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions.

— Michael Rosen

“Every woman is a living poem... Most men are limericks!”

— José N. Harris

My father was adept at making up limericks about place names we encountered on holidays or others using the names of new people we…

— Michael Rosen

“People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody…

— Diana Georgeff

Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.

— Gershon Legman

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem…

— James Fenton

I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope…

— Jill Scott

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know…

— Pablo Neruda

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no…

— Shana Alexander

To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and…

— Mary Ann Hoberman