I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life. — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. — Rick Fox Copy Share Image
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to… — Roddy Woomble Copy Share Image
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
To all men who read poetry; I bet if women had dicks, they'd shove them in your mouths to shut you the… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age.… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
“If I had my life to live over again, I would make it a rule to read some poetry, listen to some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Do you know what people do when they read poetry? They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“somewhere there is a women in China holding a black umbrella so she won’t taste the salt of the rain when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers.… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“poetry readings have to be some of the saddest damned things ever, the gathering of the clansmen and clanladies, week after week,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“When you write poetry honestly, and when you read it honestly, then you become an individual and build up a defense against… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
