Classic Poetry Fan Gifts

"Your blood pressure is fine. But you're a little high in cholesterol."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"So, what brings you in today, Mr. Brooks? High anxiety again?"

Tut and Carmen.

Victor Hugo

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

Papageno from The Magic Flute

"Well, what did you expect? They were both missing vital organs."

"For the last time stupid, you're tin man, you are not by any leap of the imagination, anything like Iron Man!"

"Now Playing: One of those Jane Austen movies."

Voice coming from wooden horse: 'Quiet Fanshaw! If this hostile take-over bid is going to work we've got to get right inside the boardroom.'

The Little Search Engine Who Could: 'I think I can...I think I can...'

Out To Lurch

The Demise of Tinkerbell

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

"The Hound of the Baskervilles, Watson--I took him walkies!"

Joan Hickson

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

'Listen up, Baskerville! This is MacDonald! Those hounds of yours are scaring the E-I-E-I-O out of my animals!'

Igor hesitated - "You give me that silly old brain, and i'll give you these magic beans!"

Stephen Spender.

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

'There's no art to the mind's construction on Facebook, Macbeth.'

Scarpia from Tosca

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

Hamlet's struggle with online shopping addiction. To eBay or not to eBay.

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

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

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

Don Quixote is Caged (Don Quixote).