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'This lot? Word-perfect with every song in the hit parade but can't remember a single line of poetry!'

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

"Do me next."

Edgar Allen Poe

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"Now I really hate poetry."

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

Why we need poetry. . .

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

"‘Extra vile old ox’? No, sir – it stands for ‘extra virgin olive oil.’"

John Bunyan

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

'So Captain Ahab, I put it to you that you were deliberately stalking my client!'

'This has all the makings of a fable. But first lets take lots of tests.'

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."