Poetry Aficionado Pillows

'Wait, my Lord! At least stay for the mad, bad and dangerous to know category!'

'Your poetry totally captures the raw, primitive essence of the writing workshops you've attended.'

Encyclopedic Novel Slam.

Friedrich Schiller

Humpty Dumpty sits on some scaffolding at a construction site

"Their lawyer found out that I enjoy reading poetry, and that I also like to watch professional wrestling. They're calling it a conflict of interests."

"Alas,we all knew Carl. A poet, a dreamer, a roamer."

'It most certainly is not doggerel.'

Nikolai Gogol

William Blake.

When are we gonna learn something from our generation and not yours?

"A pharaoh who lived by the Nile...And was eaten by an old crocodile."

Irish Writers showing mastery over English

"Dad, I hold a professorship, in poetry at Harvard. I'm widely published. I'm well off. I'll retire in three years. The odds of me going into medicine at this point are slim to none."

Sylvia Plath

Muriel Spark

"Maybe he's waving and drowning."

Dante Alighieri

"Granted, I could have read your body of work to find out you specialize in dirty limericks before appointing you state poet laureate."

The Two Enemy Fleets Clash. (Orlando Furioso).

"Beyond the fine starting salary, the job of a poet laureate at this corporation also carries with it an excellent medical and dental plan."

"I'm used to having a pussycat doctor."

Tailpiece - inspired by Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

The Three Musicians - Illustration to Beardwell's Poem (Published Version)

Hell at Last.Yawning, Received them Whole (Paradise Lost).

Stendhal

'My love is like a red, red rose.' quote from Byron and the man says, 'I'm not surprised'

"The next time you're late for class 'ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee'."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'It's only the library ghost - he was a great poet but a failed novelist.'

Little ship of horrors

"If you quote Rilke again, I'm just going to have to take my bra off!"