Everyone Quote by Wendy Cope

“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.”

— George Orwell

“They can go about collecting every material thing of worldly value, but they’re missing everything that truly counts. When you’ve got nothing else, family…

— Megan Thomason

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

— Ralph Fiennes

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

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

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep…

— Wendy Cope

Let's face it: families behind closed doors are the funniest thing ever - the way people talk to each other, the way you fight…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

— Stella Benson

Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short…

— Olga Masters

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

— Stella Benson

Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from being distant…

— Sarah Kay

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind…

— Victoria Chang