I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old…

“Have a cup of tea while reading a book; more tea and more books, you will create yourself.”

— John Taskinsoy

“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”

— Alan Clark

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new…

— Dana Scott

Poetry doesn't necessarily need to be some erudite thing. Your mom telling you a story is just as much poetry as some old 17th…

— Arlo Parks

“Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).”

— Leila Samarrai

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something…

— W. S. Merwin

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“She bleeds poetry. She is an old soul. She has already existed since the day the Earth gave birth to nature. She felt the…

— Verliza Gajeles

“I have my books and my poetry to protect me" -Simon and Garfunkel, I Am A Rock”

— I Am A Rock Simon and Garfunkel

“If you had to give one piece of advice to people in their twenties, what would it be? To go to a bookstore and…

— Cheryl Strayed

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

— Paul Simon

“It was true Paige and I had dinner alone. She wanted to stop by and pick up some books — poetry books I’d owned…

— Elissa Schappell

“I have my books and poetry to protect me”

— Simon and Garfunkel

My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume and be…

— Joseph Brodsky

“When books go out into the world, they take on a life. Sometimes that life is a quiet and dusty one, waiting on the…

— Frances Mayes