Father Quote by Michael Rosen

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

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's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

— Saul Williams

Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put…

— Malachy McCourt

I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old,

— Ogden Nash

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

— Dolly Parton

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became…

— Natasha Trethewey

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

— Philip Levine

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

— Robert Morgan

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I…

— Natasha Trethewey