Famous Quotes

"It's very hard to write humor."

Mark Strand on Humor

More quotes about Humor

• "A joke is a very serious thing."

  Winston Churchill on Humor

• "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

  Mark Twain on Humor

• "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

  William James on Humor

• "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

• "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Humor

More quotes by Mark Strand

• "The future is always beginning now."

• "Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."

• "Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."

• "Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."

• "Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."