Came across a few of these recently. Particularly liked -

"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, 'Why should I? He never reads any of mine' ." Spike Milligan

"Free verse is like playing tennis with the net down." Robert Frost

"Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." Gene Fowler

Any more?

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde

'If you can't say ''fuck'' then you can't say ''fuck the government''. ~Lenny Bruce

There are two ways of disliking poetry. One way is to dislike it, and the other is to read Pope - Oscar Wilde

"The dawn is a term for the early morning used by poets and other people who don't have to get up" - Oliver Herford

"I was working on the proofs of one of my poems all day. In the morning I put a comma in and in the afternoon I took it back out again." - Oscar Wilde

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
Oscar Wilde

Life is 6/4 Against - Milligan's Dad

"He has produced a couplet. When our friend is delivered of a couplet, with infinite labour and pain, he takes to his bed, has straw laid down, the knocker tied up, and expects his friends to call and make enquiries." - Sydney Smith.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are.
If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ~ Oscar Wilde

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

"A publisher would as soon see a burglar in his office as a poet" - H. de Vere Stacpoole

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers

"Poetry?! In Wigan?! Stop being gay and eat a pie."

Genuine quotation about poetry in Wigan from a member of 'Harry's Bar'.

"If you can't annoy somebody there is little point in writing" - Kingsley Amis

"God created the poet, then took a handful of the rubbish that was left and made three critics"
- T. J. Thomas

Poetry

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.

Marriane Moore

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writing, so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.

Socrates


and...

The reading which has pleased, will please when repeated ten times.

Horace

oh my! john Togher - that made me spew my tea! excellent.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.
Bill Hicks

" 'The Ancient Mariner' would not have been so popular if it had been called 'The Old Sailor' " - Alan Coren

'Form is never more than an extension of content' Robert Creeley, via Charles Olson.

"The most important difference between poetry and any other branch of publishing is, that whereas with most categories of books you are aiming to make as much money as possible, with poetry you are aiming to lose as little as possible." - T.S. Eliot

Another from T.S.Eliot - "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

@Marianne Louise Daniels: Bill Hicks-everything but one I have on my Facebook site and has been for 3 years or maybe 10.

What Bill would like to see on a news report...just once...

' “Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves''.... Here’s Tom with the weather.'...Bill Hicks

"Donne's verses are like the peace and mercy of God. Like His peace, they pass all understanding, and like His mercy they seem to endure forever." - King James 1st (of England, 6th of Scotland)