If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve…

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close…

— Asghar Farhadi

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a…

— Robert A. Heinlein

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far…

— Stephen Hawking

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

— Janet Coleman

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

— Carl Sagan

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

— Gaston Bachelard

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read -…

— Paul Auster

Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing…

— Kevin Hart

We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.

— Michael Stipe

Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

“Read it to me.” “Seriously?” he said quietly. “You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn’t enough?”

— Brynn Kelly

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

— Abraham Verghese

“Do lawyers read poetry?”

— Kestral M. Gaian