Relationship Poet Pillows

"I said I was sorry. And you shouldn't furrow your brow, it'll give you wrinkles."

Marriage guidance - "She can't help us. As a couple we are the perfect match!"

"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."

"Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have decided to separate amicably."

"Do you, Darlene, take Jim to be your lawfully wedded husband, when you could, clearly, do far better?"

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

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

"Do me next."

Edgar Allen Poe

"Now I really hate poetry."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"Will you stand by him through humiliating revelation after humiliating revelation, and then-once you're sure it couldn't possibly get any worse-when even more humiliating revelations come to light?"

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

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

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

'Oh, Arthur...You sweet, blind, mad, dear, silly fool....Don't you see it could never last?'

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

John Bunyan

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

"I feel we haven't moved beyond parallel play."

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

I DATED A GUY FROM THE FAIR, BUT . . .

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

"Darling, I think we need to talk about where this relationship is going..." Male evolution.

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

Dating an English Major

"Oh, this old thing?"

Letters escape from a caged book.

'You have to Marvell eh - 'annihalating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.''

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"