“Bill Clinton - "Mr. Bill" - ibid.”
Jello Biafra (1958) singer and activist
Biafra's Nicknames for Various Political Figures
“Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.”
Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
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“The person who wrote the poem can tell you more about the poem than anyone else.”
David Yezzi (1966) American poet
Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)
“I found the poems in the fields,
And only wrote them down.”
John Clare (1793–1864) English poet
Source: The Later Poems, 1837-1864: Volumes I and II
“It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer.”
Richard Bentley (1662–1742) English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Of Pope's translation of The Iliad — as quoted in The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes by John Hawkins, Vol. IV (1787), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, "Life of Pope", footnote on p. 126.
“…a poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it…”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The Woman at the Washington Zoo," [an essay about the writing of the poem by that name] from Understanding Poetry, third edition, ed. Cleanth Brooks (1960) [p. 319]
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
F. J. Duarte (1954) Chilean-American physicist
in Introduction to Lasers, [F. J. Duarte, Tunable Laser Optics, Elsevier Academic, 2003, 0-12-222696-8, 3]
“I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.”
Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club
Source: The Jane Austen Book Club
Spike Milligan (1918–2002) British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor
Spike Milligan with Jeremy Taylor Live at Cambridge University. Recorded at Cambridge University on December 2, 1973, this was previously released as a double LP, and later re-issued as a 2 CD set. Milligan used variations on the Shakespear line throughout his later life.