--- title: "18 Poem Read Quotes by 16 authors" description: "Browse 18 Poem Read quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Poem Read sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6e/maya-angelou-104_poem_will-i-be-less-dead-because-i-wrote-this_674337.png" --- > [“Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/will-i-be-less-dead-because-i-wrote-this-poem-or-you-more-because-you/) [Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6e/maya-angelou-104_poem_will-i-be-less-dead-because-i-wrote-this_674337.png) > [“or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/or-that-writing-a-poem-you-can-read-to-no-one-is-like-dancing-in-the/) [Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94c/ovid-276_poem_or-that-writing-a-poem-you-can-read-to-n_2443275.png) > [Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/do-three-things-each-night-before-you-go-to-bed-read-a-poem-read-a/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/252/ray-bradbury-75_bed_do-three-things-each-night-before-you-go_1263670.jpg) > [Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-j-daniels/almost-any-poem-has-to-be-read-twice-first-for-strangeness-second-for/) [Peter J. Daniels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-j-daniels/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f1/peter-j-daniels-41040_books_almost-any-poem-has-to-be-read-twice-fir_1975608.jpg) > [Rose once told me about this poem she’d read. There was this line, ‘If your eyes weren’t open, you wouldn’t know the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-mead/rose-once-told-me-about-this-poem-she-d-read-there-was-this-line-if/) [Richelle Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-mead/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13b/richelle-mead-46_differences_rose-once-told-me-about-this-poem-she-d_2630815.jpg) > [I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orlando-bloom/i-have-a-personal-little-routine-that-i-do-in-my-dressing-room-just/) [Orlando Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orlando-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd0/orlando-bloom-1693_dressing_i-have-a-personal-little-routine-that-i_2737788.jpg) > [People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-larkin/people-need-what-they-think-of-as-a-poem-to-be-read-at-their-bar/) [Joan Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-larkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/191/joan-larkin-26192_bar-mitzvah_people-need-what-they-think-of-as-a-poem_461976.jpg) > [“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/still-perfect-he-said-read-to-me-this-isn-t-really-a-poem-to-read-2/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3df/john-green-12_parenting_still-perfect-he-said-read-to-me-this-is_549783.jpg) > [What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-would-we-not-give-for-some-great-poem-to-read-now-which-would-be/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/henry-david-thoreau-20_giving_what-would-we-not-give-for-some-great-po_1132929.jpg) > [“I don’t know why I’ve always been like this, why the smallest things make me ache inside. There’s a poem I read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erika-l-s-nchez/i-don-t-know-why-i-ve-always-been-like-this-why-the-smallest-things/) [Erika L. Sánchez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erika-l-s-nchez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/erika-l-s-nchez-56009_feeling_i-don-t-know-why-i-ve-always-been-like-t_201708.jpg) > [I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-think-the-biggest-thing-that-i-have-to-do-is-to-remind-people-that/) [Natasha Trethewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-trethewey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb6/natasha-trethewey-7684_alone_i-think-the-biggest-thing-that-i-have-to_2810740.jpg) > [\[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-babbage/in-response-to-alfred-tennyson-s-poem-vision-of-sin-which-included/) [Charles Babbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-babbage/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88d/charles-babbage-8461_accurate_in-response-to-alfred-tennyson-s-poem-vi_598329.jpg) > [Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warsan-shire/poetry-is-like-a-portrait-of-a-moment-or-person-and-the-poem-is/) [Warsan Shire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warsan-shire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1b/warsan-shire-7647_brevity_poetry-is-like-a-portrait-of-a-moment-or_1049484.jpg) > [“What is going on with you, Rev?” He rubs his eyes. “I don’t know. I’m just tired.” I think of how he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigid-kemmerer/what-is-going-on-with-you-rev-he-rubs-his-eyes-i-don-t-know-i-m-just/) [Brigid Kemmerer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigid-kemmerer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d62/brigid-kemmerer-2470_poetry_what-is-going-on-with-you-rev-he-rubs-hi_1369551.jpg) > [“What I saw there explained everything--the reason he had stayed away, why he had come to say good-bye. I can only describe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nafisa-haji/what-i-saw-there-explained-everything-the-reason-he-had-stayed-away/) [Nafisa Haji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nafisa-haji/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/nafisa-haji-35692_beauty_what-i-saw-there-explained-everything-th_957843.jpg) > [“The next morning I took the screen out of that window, and hid it in the back of my closet, where it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/the-next-morning-i-took-the-screen-out-of-that-window-and-hid-it-in/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f1/john-green-12_god-knows_the-next-morning-i-took-the-screen-out-o_964711.jpg) > [“Torn The internet’s all show, no actual cunnilingus has transpired between us. This has been smoke signals from eye to eye. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hicok/torn-the-internet-s-all-show-no-actual-cunnilingus-has-transpired/) [Bob Hicok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hicok/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/bob-hicok-28640_communication_torn-the-internet-s-all-show-no-actual-c_2945900.jpg) > [“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/still-perfect-he-said-read-to-me-this-isn-t-really-a-poem-to-read/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/john-green-12_love_still-perfect-he-said-read-to-me-this-is_389641.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poem-read/#itemlist", "name": "Poem Read Quotes", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maya Angelou" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/will-i-be-less-dead-because-i-wrote-this-poem-or-you-more-because-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6e/maya-angelou-104_poem_will-i-be-less-dead-because-i-wrote-this_674337.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6e/maya-angelou-104_poem_will-i-be-less-dead-because-i-wrote-this_674337.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6e/maya-angelou-104_poem_will-i-be-less-dead-because-i-wrote-this_674337.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.” — Maya Angelou", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ovid" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/or-that-writing-a-poem-you-can-read-to-no-one-is-like-dancing-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94c/ovid-276_poem_or-that-writing-a-poem-you-can-read-to-n_2443275.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94c/ovid-276_poem_or-that-writing-a-poem-you-can-read-to-n_2443275.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94c/ovid-276_poem_or-that-writing-a-poem-you-can-read-to-n_2443275.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.” — Ovid", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ray Bradbury" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/do-three-things-each-night-before-you-go-to-bed-read-a-poem-read-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/252/ray-bradbury-75_bed_do-three-things-each-night-before-you-go_1263670.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/252/ray-bradbury-75_bed_do-three-things-each-night-before-you-go_1263670.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/252/ray-bradbury-75_bed_do-three-things-each-night-before-you-go_1263670.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.” — Ray Bradbury", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter J. 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There’s a poem I read once, titled “The World Is Too Much with Us,” and I guess that is the best way to describe the feeling—the world is too much with me.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Erika L. Sánchez" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erika-l-s-nchez/i-don-t-know-why-i-ve-always-been-like-this-why-the-smallest-things/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/erika-l-s-nchez-56009_feeling_i-don-t-know-why-i-ve-always-been-like-t_201708.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/erika-l-s-nchez-56009_feeling_i-don-t-know-why-i-ve-always-been-like-t_201708.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/erika-l-s-nchez-56009_feeling_i-don-t-know-why-i-ve-always-been-like-t_201708.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don’t know why I’ve always been like this, why the smallest things make me ache inside. There’s a poem I…” — Erika L. Sánchez", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Natasha Trethewey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-trethewey/i-think-the-biggest-thing-that-i-have-to-do-is-to-remind-people-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb6/natasha-trethewey-7684_alone_i-think-the-biggest-thing-that-i-have-to_2810740.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb6/natasha-trethewey-7684_alone_i-think-the-biggest-thing-that-i-have-to_2810740.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb6/natasha-trethewey-7684_alone_i-think-the-biggest-thing-that-i-have-to_2810740.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not…” — Natasha Trethewey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem \"Vision of Sin,\" which included the line \"Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born.\"] If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: \"Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 [and] 1/16 is born.\" Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 [and] 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Babbage" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-babbage/in-response-to-alfred-tennyson-s-poem-vision-of-sin-which-included/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88d/charles-babbage-8461_accurate_in-response-to-alfred-tennyson-s-poem-vi_598329.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88d/charles-babbage-8461_accurate_in-response-to-alfred-tennyson-s-poem-vi_598329.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88d/charles-babbage-8461_accurate_in-response-to-alfred-tennyson-s-poem-vi_598329.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem \"Vision of Sin,\" which included the line \"Every moment dies a man…” — Charles Babbage", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. 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I’m just tired.” I think of how he sat in the hospital with me, saying nothing. His silence was more supportive than anything he could have said. I don’t know how to do that in return. Maybe I can offer something else, though. I pull out my phone and do a quick search, then turn it around and slide it across the bed. He doesn’t reach for it. “Did she send more?” “No. It’s a poem I had to read for English. Read it.” He looks up, and the expression on his face is exactly the one I’d wear if he suddenly said, Hey bro, read this poem. “What?” “Just read it. I think you’ll like it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brigid Kemmerer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigid-kemmerer/what-is-going-on-with-you-rev-he-rubs-his-eyes-i-don-t-know-i-m-just/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d62/brigid-kemmerer-2470_poetry_what-is-going-on-with-you-rev-he-rubs-hi_1369551.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d62/brigid-kemmerer-2470_poetry_what-is-going-on-with-you-rev-he-rubs-hi_1369551.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d62/brigid-kemmerer-2470_poetry_what-is-going-on-with-you-rev-he-rubs-hi_1369551.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What is going on with you, Rev?” He rubs his eyes. “I don’t know. I’m just tired.” I think of how he sat in…” — Brigid Kemmerer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What I saw there explained everything--the reason he had stayed away, why he had come to say good-bye. I can only describe what I saw by its effect on me. Every woman should be looked at in such a way, at least once her life. With a longing that cannot be contained--with love that goes beyond mere feeling because it transforms and-like the verse of the poem he had read--it dissolves, as an offering, a gift. I felt my face flush and waves of knowing suffused every pore, every cell of my being. I was loved. And in that love, I felt beauty--my own, unrealized until that moment, suddenly rising to consciousness in a way that made everything in me come alive to the beauty all around me. Nothing more needed to be said.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nafisa Haji" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nafisa-haji/what-i-saw-there-explained-everything-the-reason-he-had-stayed-away/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/nafisa-haji-35692_beauty_what-i-saw-there-explained-everything-th_957843.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/nafisa-haji-35692_beauty_what-i-saw-there-explained-everything-th_957843.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/nafisa-haji-35692_beauty_what-i-saw-there-explained-everything-th_957843.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What I saw there explained everything--the reason he had stayed away, why he had come to say good-bye. I can…” — Nafisa Haji", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The next morning I took the screen out of that window, and hid it in the back of my closet, where it remains. I took an elective in poetry my sophomore year because I heard that Margo was taking it. By then we weren't friends really, because she was already the high priestess of Winterpark High School. She was friendly to me, but I never really had anything to say to her really, except occasionally during classes. The great surprise of that class was that I actually like poetry. At least some of it. There's this one poem we read called \"Howl\", and it starts out: \"I saw the best minds of my generation, destroyed by madness. Starving, hysterical, naked.\" I've never seen Margo starving, or hysterical, and God knows I've never seen her naked. But somehow -- and this is why I like poetry -- those words still describe her as she stood outside my window. Her blinkless blue eyes, starving, and hysterical, and naked, staring back at me. I think she was still trying to piece it together - how the strings break, I mean - as she stared at me. Margo always loved mysteries, and in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/the-next-morning-i-took-the-screen-out-of-that-window-and-hid-it-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f1/john-green-12_god-knows_the-next-morning-i-took-the-screen-out-o_964711.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f1/john-green-12_god-knows_the-next-morning-i-took-the-screen-out-o_964711.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f1/john-green-12_god-knows_the-next-morning-i-took-the-screen-out-o_964711.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The next morning I took the screen out of that window, and hid it in the back of my closet, where it…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Torn The internet’s all show, no actual cunnilingus has transpired between us. This has been smoke signals from eye to eye. And just like the telegraph, the telephone gave us a means to the ends of staying ever closer to home, ever farther from the ear we’d dot-dash or whisper into, what a sad story for flesh, marooned. First by the womb, then the word traveled fast and free of lips, now your hips can thrive in my brain without entering my life. I might as well be on the moon. The evolution of communication’s to mythologize togetherness as we drift entropically apart. That’s what the kids call a thesis statement. But god you’re hot, and your crescendo of breath so fully apes the real deal, is it possible we can be islanded and still come to prefer absence to presence, the digital to the palpable? I fear the question answers itself by nodding to the fact that I can write a poem and you read it with no hand having touched metal or paper or words that don’t dissolve as soon as a switch is thrown. Half of my soul says, Get used to it. The other million percent begs, Don’t.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hicok" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hicok/torn-the-internet-s-all-show-no-actual-cunnilingus-has-transpired/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/bob-hicok-28640_communication_torn-the-internet-s-all-show-no-actual-c_2945900.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/bob-hicok-28640_communication_torn-the-internet-s-all-show-no-actual-c_2945900.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/bob-hicok-28640_communication_torn-the-internet-s-all-show-no-actual-c_2945900.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Torn The internet’s all show, no actual cunnilingus has transpired between us. This has been smoke signals…” — Bob Hicok", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your sleeping mother. It has, like, sodomy and angel dust in it,” I said. “You just named two of my favorite pastimes,” he said. “Okay, read me something else then?” “Um,” I said. “I don’t have anything else?” “That’s too bad. I am so in the mood for poetry. Do you have anything memorized?” “‘Let us go then, you and I,’” I started nervously, “‘When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table.’” “Slower,” he said. I felt bashful, like I had when I’d first told him of An Imperial Affliction. “Um, okay. Okay. ‘Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question . . . / Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” / Let us go and make our visit.’” “I’m in love with you,” he said quietly. “Augustus,” I said. “I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.” “Augustus,” I said again, not knowing what else to say. It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn’t say it back. I”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/still-perfect-he-said-read-to-me-this-isn-t-really-a-poem-to-read/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/john-green-12_love_still-perfect-he-said-read-to-me-this-is_389641.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/john-green-12_love_still-perfect-he-said-read-to-me-this-is_389641.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f9/john-green-12_love_still-perfect-he-said-read-to-me-this-is_389641.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poem-read/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poem-read/", "name": "Poem Read Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poem-read/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6e/maya-angelou-104_poem_will-i-be-less-dead-because-i-wrote-this_674337.png" }, "description": "Browse 18 Poem Read quotes by 16 authors. 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