I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is…

— Erica Jong

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

— Anonymous

You read best what you read most.

— Zuzana Licko

We read best what we read most.

— Zuzana Licko

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

— Will Arnett

I do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.

— Joel Edgerton

I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's…

— Sarah Kay

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye

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

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment…

— Robert Hass

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is…

— Rupert Brooke