Wendy Cope Quotes
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.
Another Christmas PoemBlood Christmas, here again.Let us raise a loving cup:Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them do the washing-up.
The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell.His absence wasn’t a problemBut the corkscrew had gone as well.