In case you’re hankering for a few furry quotations on poetry, give these pet quotations a try. In the following idiomatic expressions, I’ve changed “dog” to “poet.” See also Let Sleeping Poets Lie.

• Every poet has its day.
• I’m poet tired.
• Look at him, he’s a real hotpoet.
• Tonight is a three poet night.
• Boy, I’ve been working like a poet.
• No, I can’t help—I’m as sick as a poet.
• You lucky poet!
• No poets allowed!
• You can’t teach an old poet new tricks.
• That’s nothing but a poet and pony show.
• I think that’s just the tail wagging the poet.
• How much is that poet in the window?
• Let sleeping poets lie.
• Boy, you’ve sure gone to the poets.
• Please, call off the poets.
• Welcome to the poet days of summer.
• If you lie down with poets, you’ll get up with fleas.
• It’s a poet-eat-poet world.
• He’s a real dirty poet!
• She’s meaner than a junkyard poet
• I’m the underpoet in this race.
• All poets go to heaven.

In the following idiomatic expressions, I’ve changed “cat” to “poet.”

• You’re the poet’s meow.
• Don’t play poet and mouse!
• You’re a real fraidy-poet.
• You’re grinning like a Cheshire poet.
• That’s like herding poets.
• Are you sitting in the poet bird seat?
• Watch out for poet calls.
• A poet can look at a king.
• Don’t let the poet out of the bag.
• Don’t be a copypoet.
• Do you want to take a poetnap?
• Look what the poet dragged in.
• You’re the real poet’s pajamas.
• Curiosity killed the poet.
• A poet has nine lives.
• All poets are gray in the dark.
• She was as nervous as a poet in a room full of rocking chairs.
• You’re like a poet on a hot tin roof.
• What, poet got your tongue?
• There’s not enough room here to swing a poet.
• Well, there’s more than one way to skin a poet.
• When the poet’s away, the mice will play.
• You look like the poet who swallowed the canary.