Poets alone should kiss and tell.

More from "The Portable Dorothy Parker"

• Women and elephants never forget.
• Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
• Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
• If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume Oscar said it.
• If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume Oscar said it. Oscar Wilde
• I never thought I'd get here.