I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
“Stani walks in later, glaring at them both. “Bloody bastards. One minute punching each other, next minute reading poetry. What’s wrong with… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“I'm angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could… — Han Nolan Copy Share Image
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the… — Ivan M. Granger Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“To tell you the truth, I prefer just your average, run-of-the-mill, everyday jackass with his glass-eyed, slack-jawed obliviousness to the guys who… — John Green Copy Share Image
“They snatched that from me which I still held. They vied with each other in reading poetry to me in sheltered corners.… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I was playing a singer-songwriter, so I started writing, and I started going up to different places around Los Angeles and reading… — Inbar Lavi Copy Share Image
Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
![“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d17/virginia-woolf-49_air_reading-poetry-you-know-is-rather-like-o_1410961.jpg)
