Aspiring Poet Mugs

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

"I try to write a little bit every day."

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

Thomas Hardy

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

"If you saw a book with the title 'An American Speaks Out,' would you buy it?"

"I want you to meet What's-His-Name, the much-misunderstood writer."

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

Sinking with your heart

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

"Those are the failed attempts at my first novel."

I'm writing the Great American novel, one bill at a time.

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

Lord Byron

Limerick Airport

"Just what is a runcible spoon?"

Never write a sonnet on an empty stomach

Emily Dickinson at a Cocktail Party: "I;m Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too?"

This man is an island.