Comedy Quote by Michael Rosen

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

— José N. Harris

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

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

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

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

— Gershon Legman

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

— Stephane Mallarme

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

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

— Anonymous

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

“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

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

— Billy Collins