Poetry Enthusiast Mugs

"What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin Round Table

"Let me guess – you stayed late at your buddy's place helping him with a, quoth, poem."

Poet's Corner

"It's National Poetry Month, Marion, and by God we're gonna read some poetry."

"Young Robert Frost"

Early Literary Letters - Philip Larkin.

"Are you familiar with the poetry of John Donne?"

The New Colossus

Anteater at zoo points to sign on enclosure and says to family: 'It's not as if that's all I do. I write poetry, I'm very much involved in charity work ... why single out that one thing?'

A man and a woman discussing poetry

T.S. Eliot calendar.

Why Bob Dylan never made it through college.

The poetry repair shop

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I got a little freaked out because where did the second road come from??

"Ahh...the beauty of feeling chickens It's an ode. It's a sonnet. It's, it's..." "Sheer poultry in motion."

Rudyard Kipling.

"Once I start writing a poem, I can't stop."

Emily Dickinson

"It's not a very good simile but you'll be like an evening spread out against the sky."

Samuel Johnson

''Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by'...which was a helluva dumb place for me to launch a burger franchise!'

Self Indulgent Teenager

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

Walt Whitman sounds his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Thomas Hardy

"A host? You call that a host. Why back in the States we..."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Owing to an impetuous act of your Great-Great-Aunt Pumpkin's, we now have owls in the family."

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Pussycat says to Owl: 'This is rubbish, can we PLEASE do Ibiza next year?'

"Permission to speak in rhyming couplets, sir!"

Philip Larkin

So Lonely 'Twas (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner).