Top 35 Poet Humor Quotes
#1. Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear ... and hopefully your hairdo.
Minton Sparks
#2. Someone asked me when is my birthday?
The poet inside me replied,
My birthday is on the last day of the year,
It's 31st December my dear!
Anamika Mishra
#3. Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.
Vladimir Nabokov
#4. By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please.
Criss Jami
#5. A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
Sal Albanese
#8. Do you think it's ready?" I [Silenus, The Poet] asked.
"It's perfect ... a masterpiece."
"Do you think it'll sell?" I asked.
"No fucking way.
Dan Simmons
#9. Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.
Dick Van Dyke
#11. Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Robert Morgan
#12. Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope ... "
"Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves."
"No, sir."
"There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't."
"Very true, sir.
P.G. Wodehouse
#13. Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.
Joan Bennett Kennedy
#14. What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
Walter Scott
#15. Every person has his set routines when it comes to thinking and acting, and where there's a routine, there's a weak point.
Haruki Murakami
#16. An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.
Joanna Russ
#18. Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: "I did not know that fellow was a poet." And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical management of forgetfulness.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#19. My heart aches for you! But don't despair! I am persuaded you will come about! Recollect what the poet says! I'm not sure which poet, but very likely it was Shakespeare, because it generally is, though why I can't imagine!
Georgette Heyer
#21. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#22. The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.
George E. Brown Jr.
#23. The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.
Fernando Pessoa
#25. In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
Bode Miller
#26. I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means ... Yeah, authentic and creative.
Zooey Deschanel
#27. I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
Aleister Crowley
#28. (1)BEING A POET
is like opening a car door
& exposing yourself.
(2)BEING A GOOD POET
is like opening the door
& exposing the passenger
as well.
Chocolate Waters
#29. And a smaller, sad, little-dead-poet sphere with acne scars spins around us lighting the night ...
N.D. Wilson
#31. When your heart starts to feel full again. I love FREE refills, and if a restaurant tries to double charge me, I refuse to write a love poem on their Yelp page.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#32. I could make a poet out of far less promising material. I could make a poet out of two sticks and a piece of orange peel.
P.G. Wodehouse
#33. The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali
#34. Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#35. Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.
Robert Charles Wilson
