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I put a chameleon on a red dildo... He blushed — Bo Burnham

I USED TO
make love.
Now I
Make coffee. — Chocolate Waters

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before. — Robert Charles Wilson

Give a poet a pen — A. Jarrell Hayes

I wonder if a fish's
One and only wish is
That other fish will never say,
This fish is sure delicious! — Brian Rock

There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true. — F.K. Preston

Calico Kitty

My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse

Really, for all the poetry in the world on the subject, when you get right down to it, it's mostly just boom! penis vagina. — Martin Leicht

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

I'm going to become a beat poet and a lesbian! — Benjamin R. Smith

Will you walk into my parlour? said the Spider to the Fly — Mary Howitt

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. — Knut Hamsun

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom. — Michele Brenton

Apollo was god of poetry as well as archery, and I'd heard him recite in person. I'd almost rather get shot by an arrow — Rick Riordan

Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale) — Muse

Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly? — Emily Dickinson

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday? — Sherley Mondesir-Prescott

The morning slathers its whatever
across the thing. — Michael Robbins

Should I get married? Should I be good? — Gregory Corso

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten. — Rosa Sophia

All of those who ask for, request or demand a title of this book will be asked to return it immediately. — Theodore Ficklestein

How do god fit him ass in them jeans when he is, in fact, Everywhere — Patricia Lockwood

The color of her eyes was mossy gold. It make me want to write crap poetry and hire a skywriter. Quinn Sullivan — Penny Reid

Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out. — Casey Renee Kiser

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience. — F.K. Preston

SAY EXACTLY
what you think
until you find that
no one is listening
then say
something else — Chocolate Waters

Just know I am
Not there to catch you
But I am there for you — Caleb Warta

Free from ivory-tower
the pencil twirls
across the footpath — Santosh Kalwar

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have. — Kay Ryan

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life. — Raegan Butcher

Poetry is the purest form of insanity. — Augusta Jane Evans

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Failure: the renewable resource. — Kay Ryan

Now Leroux, what think you
Of this twist to the story? — E.A. Bucchianeri

Oh, precious losing streak,
you're too cute for your own good.
I try to laugh about it
but my face is made of wood. — Casey Renee Kiser

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language ... the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. — John Oliver

During our first date,
I wanted to hold your hand so bad
I almost cut mine off
and threw it at you
to see if you would catch it — Colin Gilbert

They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. — Karl French

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. — K.J. Parker

English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs. — Peter Prasad

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

And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours. — Shannon L. Alder

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark
So please do not close this book on me. — Shel Silverstein

Sir U fell down from a speeding train,
Which did some damage to his brain,
And after that he did not know
How to pronounce the letter O. — Edward Gorey

That was not sex. That was naked poetry. — Hank Moody

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane. — F.K. Preston

I take this continent with me into the grave. — Ray Bradbury

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane. — Allen Ginsberg

I'll let no man in, unless of course, he knocks.
Walk right in to my heart with a thousand locks. — Casey Renee Kiser

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. — William Collins

It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it. — Richard Russo

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight — Philippa Gregory

Bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell. — Raegan Butcher

Also, it was the morning and it seemed a little odd to be thinking about poetry before luncheon. — Barbara Pym

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! — Charles Baudelaire

A fool will always find banana skins — Robert Priest

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor. — Victoria Chang

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

You think road-kill is poetry! — Jonathan Dunne

Honesty and Poetry are the same thing — Arthur Conan Doyle

A word a day keep's the 'head' doctor away! — Carol Robi

A politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man — E. E. Cummings

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. — Robert Frost

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme. — Morrissey

As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant. — Nathan Lane

Do lawyers read poetry? — Kestral M. Gaian

Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry. — Adam McKay

You can only master something by loving it. — Lera Auerbach

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. — Robert Frost

I hear they make greeting cards now
to thank your therapist ... for NOTHING — Casey Renee Kiser

Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ... — Brandi L. Bates

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day. — Dorothy Parker

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. — Pat Conroy