Dutch Quote by Mark Twain

“Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturitions are to me, As plurdled gabbleblotchits, On a lurgid bee, That mordiously hath blurted out, Its earted jurtles, Into…

— Douglas Adams

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

— George Crabbe

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear, To see the rate you drink…

— A.E. Housman Marcus Manilius

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many…

— Karen Swallow Prior

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

— Aristophanes

“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up…

— Stephen Fry

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

“Glorious,' said Steerpike, 'is a dictionary word. We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts,…

— Mervyn Peake

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

— Robert Frost

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman