Easy Quote by Victoria Chang

That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might be the…

— Matthew Zapruder

I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting a reaction…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble…

— Ted Cunningham

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

— Max Eastman

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

I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about the dire…

— Billy Collins

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the…

— George Murray

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

— Billy Collins

I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect.…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live…

— Lynda Williams

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

— Hannes Holm

Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill…

— Betty White