Oh, Alicia and Mondebomb, thanks for those glorious additions to this thread, and Tim, I agree that Parker has been terribly underestimated, and Mac, did I read you write something nice about Frost...
Ok, what other lines of the greats have made you laugh out loud?
"I would to Heaven that I were so much clay,
As I am blood, bone, marrow, passion, feeling --
Because at least the past were passed away,
And for the future--(but I write this reeling,
Having got drunk exceedingly to-day,
So that I seem to stand upon the ceiling)
I say--the future is a serious matter--
And so--for God's sake---hock and soda-water!"
Byron, Don Juan