"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."

Humor, Honesty, Sense

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"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."

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"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Humor, Weight, Warning, Technology

"Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet.""You'll be just as annoying?" I guessed.He fixed my with those warm brown eyes. "Or perhaps you could bring me up to speed on those modern courtship rituals."I sat there stunned until he gave me a glimpse of a smile-just enough to let me know he was teasing. Then he disappeared."Oh, very funny!" I yelled."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Humor, Truth, Happiness, Power

"Laughter is carbonated holiness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Humor, Laughter, Holiness, Joy, Faith

"Well, I said, "you obviously have some power. You chased off those hooligans with rotten fruit. Perhaps you have banana-kinesis? Or you can control garbage? I once knew a Roman goddess, Cloacina, who presided over the city's sewer system. Perhaps you're related? Meg pouted. I got the impression I might have said something wrong, though I couldn't imagine what."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Humor, Power, Life, Mythology

"Alas poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest of most excellent fancy."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Humor, Jest, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"The Fool held his breath. On long nights on the hard flagstones he had dreamed of women like her. Although, if he really thought about it, not much like her; they were better endowed around the chest, their noses weren't so red and pointed, and their hair tended to flow more. But the Fool's libido was bright enough to tell the difference between the impossible and the conceivably attainable, and hurriedly cut in some filter circuits."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Humor, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Today

"D'yer see it? This finger, laddie, could send ye to meet yer Maker!Sgt. Deisenburger stared at the black and purple nail a few inches from his face. As an offensive weapon it rated quite highly, especially if it was ever used in the preparation of food."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Humor, Cooking, Fear, Absurdity

"Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Humor, Credit, Ridicule, Society

"I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing..."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Humor, Life, Identity, Power

"It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Humor, Desire, Food, Interaction

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"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."

Poetry, Fiction, Past

"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."

Literature, Example, Fiction, Poets, Writing

"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

Poetry, Age, People, Perceptions

"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."

Love, Discovery, Language

"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."

Love, Poetry, Authority, Fact

"The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character."

Character, Poems, Voice

"The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new."

Art, Poetry, Idea, Being

"Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle."

People, Want, Writer

"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."

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"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."

Art, Poetry, Alchemy