Joke

“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Kate Atkinson, Case Histories

“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
― Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet