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title: "86 Read Poetry Quotes by 75 authors"
description: "Browse 86 Read Poetry quotes by 75 authors. Discover the best Read Poetry sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Do lawyers read poetry?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kestral-m-gaian/do-lawyers-read-poetry/)

Kestral M. Gaian

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> [I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eminem/i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-read-poetry-ever/)

[Eminem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eminem/)

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> [I read poetry to save time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-monroe/i-read-poetry-to-save-time/)

[Marilyn Monroe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-monroe/)

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> [One must read poetry with one's nerves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stevens/one-must-read-poetry-with-one-s-nerves/)

[Wallace Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stevens/)

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> [“The history of man is a must read poetry.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/the-history-of-man-is-a-must-read-poetry/)

[Lailah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-gifty-akita/)

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> [I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/i-would-rather-read-poetry-than-eat-my-dinner-any-day-it-has-been-so/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

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> [When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oprah-winfrey/when-i-read-poetry-i-read-it-aloud-it-s-so-much-better-that-way/)

[Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oprah-winfrey/)

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> [I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-verghese/i-love-to-read-poetry-but-i-haven-t-written-anything-that-i-m-willing/)

[Abraham Verghese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-verghese/)

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> [If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-jackins/if-you-don-t-read-poetry-how-the-hell-can-you-solve-equations/)

Harvey Jackins

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> [If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/if-you-read-three-books-a-day-you-couldn-t-read-all-the-poetry-that-s/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

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> [Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-fox/let-me-read-you-some-of-my-poetry-my-poetry-just-takes-me-to-another/)

[Rick Fox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-fox/)

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> [“On no account allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-adams/on-no-account-allow-a-vogon-to-read-poetry-at-you/)

[Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-adams/)

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> [People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-armitage/people-who-read-poetry-for-example-like-the-feel-the-heft-and-the/)

[Simon Armitage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-armitage/)

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> [I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-zelazny/i-read-poetry-every-day-i-look-at-it-as-an-exercise-a-kind-of-t-ai/)

[Roger Zelazny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-zelazny/)

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> [If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roddy-woomble/if-you-want-meaning-you-read-poetry-or-a-novel-or-something-you-don-t/)

[Roddy Woomble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roddy-woomble/)

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> [Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ernest-henley/now-to-read-poetry-at-all-is-to-have-an-ideal-anthology-of-one-s-own/)

[William Ernest Henley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-ernest-henley/)

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> [My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-k-williams/my-father-read-poetry-to-me-encouraged-me-to-memorize-poems-but-the/)

[C. K. Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-k-williams/)

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> [To all men who read poetry; I bet if women had dicks, they'd shove them in your mouths to shut you the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikhil-saluja/to-all-men-who-read-poetry-i-bet-if-women-had-dicks-they-d-shove-them/)

[Nikhil Saluja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikhil-saluja/)

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> [I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-ervin-beam/i-like-wallace-stevens-robert-frost-but-some-of-the-older-ones-it-s/)

[Samuel Ervin Beam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-ervin-beam/)

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> [The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-morgan/the-young-people-have-mtv-and-rock-and-roll-why-would-they-go-to-read/)

[Robert Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-morgan/)

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> [Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-wakoski/because-in-fact-women-feminists-do-read-my-poetry-and-they-read-it/)

[Diane Wakoski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-wakoski/)

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> [If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-haidt/if-you-are-in-passionate-love-and-want-to-celebrate-your-passion-read/)

[Jonathan Haidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-haidt/)

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> [We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-drew/we-read-poetry-because-the-poets-like-ourselves-have-been-haunted-by/)

[Elizabeth Drew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-drew/)

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> [“If I had my life to live over again, I would make it a rule to read some poetry, listen to some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/if-i-had-my-life-to-live-over-again-i-would-make-it-a-rule-to-read/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-d-schmidt/you-know-there-are-good-reasons-to-learn-how-to-read-poetry-isn-t-one/)

[Gary D. Schmidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-d-schmidt/)

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> [“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debora-geary/do-you-know-what-people-do-when-they-read-poetry-they-try-to-figure/)

[Debora Geary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debora-geary/)

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> [I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-lipsyte/i-had-a-teacher-once-who-said-if-you-are-going-to-write-fiction-you/)

[Sam Lipsyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-lipsyte/)

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> [The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eavan-boland/the-united-states-poetry-emerged-when-there-was-a-high-literacy-rate/)

[Eavan Boland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eavan-boland/)

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> [We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-howe/we-tell-each-other-stories-to-help-each-other-live-that-s-why-i-read/)

[Marie Howe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-howe/)

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> [“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/read-poetry-every-day-of-your-life-poetry-is-good-because-it-flexes/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [“somewhere there is a women in China holding a black umbrella so she won’t taste the salt of the rain when the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/somewhere-there-is-a-women-in-china-holding-a-black-umbrella-so-she/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/he-shewed-himself-so-intimately-acquainted-with-all-the-tenderest/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [“Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-johnson/of-course-he-showed-me-this-one-afternoon-when-he-was-skipping-class/)

[Maureen Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-johnson/)

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> [“poetry readings have to be some of the saddest damned things ever, the gathering of the clansmen and clanladies, week after week,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/poetry-readings-have-to-be-some-of-the-saddest-damned-things-ever-the/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [“When you write poetry honestly, and when you read it honestly, then you become an individual and build up a defense against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi/when-you-write-poetry-honestly-and-when-you-read-it-honestly-then-you/)

[Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi/)

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> [“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/i-have-said-that-in-one-respect-my-mind-has-changed-during-the-last/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-d-wright/nobody-reads-poetry-we-are-told-at-every-inopportune-moment-i-read/)

[C.D. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-d-wright/)

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> [The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-holland/the-only-people-who-still-read-poetry-are-poets-and-they-mostly-read/)

[Barbara Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-holland/)

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> [I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-bennett/i-will-never-cease-advising-my-friends-and-enemies-to-read-poetry/)

[Arnold Bennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-bennett/)

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> [I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eminem/i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-read-poetry-ever-i-m-not-really-book-smart/)

[Eminem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eminem/)

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                        "text": "Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.",
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                        "text": "If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.",
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                        "text": "We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.",
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                        "text": "“If I had my life to live over again, I would make it a rule to read some poetry, listen to some music, and see some painting or drawing at least once a week, for perhaps the part of my brain now atrophied would then have been kept alive through life. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness.”",
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                        "text": "You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?",
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                        "text": "“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and how they felt, and if they’re a totally screwed-up idiot or whatever.  It’s like being naked, only a thousand times worse.”",
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                        "text": "I had a teacher once who said, \"If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry.\" I have always been interested in the writers who care about their sentences and who really work on that level. I have always said that I hate writing, I love revision. So, the language is really important to me. And the comedy and the horror that come out of the language.",
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                        "text": "The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People read the poetry when it was written. In Ireland, there was a poor literacy rate and people remember that poetry. That was handed on as a memorial tradition.",
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                        "text": "We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.",
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                        "text": "“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand. And, above all, poetry is compacted metaphor or simile. Such metaphors, like Japanese paper flowers, may expand outward into gigantic shapes. Ideas lie everywhere through the poetry books, yet how rarely have I heard short story teachers recommending them for browsing. What poetry? Any poetry that makes your hair stand up along your arms. Don’t force yourself too hard. Take it easy. Over the years you may catch up to, move even with, and pass T. S. Eliot on your way to other pastures. You say you don’t understand Dylan Thomas? Yes, but your ganglion does, and your secret wits, and all your unborn children. Read him, as you can read a horse with your eyes, set free and charging over an endless green meadow on a windy day.”",
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                        "text": "“somewhere there is a women in China holding a black umbrella so she won’t taste the salt of the rain when the sky begins to weep, there is a 17 year old girl who smells like pomegranates and has summer air tight on her naked skin, wrapping around her scars like veins in a bloody garden, who won’t make it past tomorrow, there is a young man, who buys yellow flowers for the woman in apartment 84B, who learned braille when he realized she couldn’t read his poetry about her white neck and mint eyes there are people watching films, making love for the first time, opening mail with the heading of ‘i miss you’, cooking noodles with organic spices and red sauces, buying lemon detergent, ignoring ‘do not smoke’ signs, painting murals of his lips in abandoned warehouses, chewing the words ‘i love you’ over and over again, swallowing phone numbers and forgotten birthdays, eating strawberry pies, drinking white wine off of each others open mouths, ignoring the telephone, reading this poem somewhere someone is thinking i’m alone somewhere someone finally understands they never really were”",
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                        "text": "“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of the other; he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study.”",
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                        "text": "“Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful fingers, and you never stop to think that it shouldn't take half a semester to read one book of poems... that maybe he is not so much reading as getting really high every morning and sleeping it off on the library steps, forcing the people who actually go to class to step or trip over him.”",
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                        "text": "“poetry readings have to be some of the saddest damned things ever, the gathering of the clansmen and clanladies, week after week, month after month, year after year, getting old together, reading on to tiny gatherings, still hoping their genius will be discovered, making tapes together, discs together, sweating for applause they read basically to and for each other, they can't find a New York publisher or one within miles, but they read on and on in the poetry holes of America, never daunted, never considering the possibility that their talent might be thin, almost invisible, they read on and on before their mothers, their sisters, their husbands, their wives, their friends, the other poets and the handful of idiots who have wandered in from nowhere. I am ashamed for them, I am ashamed that they have to bolster each other, I am ashamed for their lisping egos, their lack of guts. if these are our creators, please, please give me something else: a drunken plumber at a bowling alley, a prelim boy in a four rounder, a jock guiding his horse through along the rail, a bartender on last call, a waitress pouring me a coffee, a drunk sleeping in a deserted doorway, a dog munching a dry bone, an elephant's fart in a circus tent, a 6 p.m. freeway crush, the mailman telling a dirty joke anything anything but these.”",
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                        "text": "“When you write poetry honestly, and when you read it honestly, then you become an individual and build up a defense against becoming programmed. And if you read poetry to young people, which I very often do—I go to schools, I have even gone to prisons—I feel you can raise in people’s minds the wish never to be an opportunist, never to be a mindless follower. To look always at what’s happening and not to look away from it. That’s the most you can do. You cannot change the world, but you can change the single person, I guess. And a single person who decides not to join the crowd….”",
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                        "text": "“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving me pleasure. I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did. On the other hand, novels which are works of the imagination, though not of a very high order, have been for years a wonderful relief and pleasure to me, and I often bless all novelists. A surprising number have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily–against which a law ought to be passed. A novel, according to my taste, does not come into the first class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love, and if a pretty woman all the better. This curious and lamentable loss of the higher aesthetic tastes is all the odder, as books on history, biographies, and travels (independently of any scientific facts which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.”",
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                        "text": "“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be allowed that an industrious quantity of contemporary American poetry is consciously written for a hermetic constituency; the bulk is written for the bourgeoisie, leaving a lean cut for labor. Only the hermetically aimed has a snowball's chance in hell of reaching its intended ears. One proceeds from this realization. A staggering figure of vibrant, intelligent people can and do live without poetry, especially without the poetry of their time. This figure includes the unemployed, the rank and file, the union brass, banker, scientist, lawyer, doctor, architect, pilot, and priest. It also includes most academics, most of the faculty of the humanities, most allegedly literary editors and most allegedly literary critics. They do so--go forward in their lives, toward their great reward, in an engulfing absence of poetry--without being perceived or perceiving themselves as hobbled or deficient in any significant way. It is nearly true, though I am often reminded of a Transtromer broadside I saw in a crummy office building in San Francisco: We got dressed and showed the house You live well the visitor said The slum must be inside you. If I wanted to understand a culture, my own for instance, and if I thought such an understanding were the basis for a lifelong inquiry, I would turn to poetry first. For it is my confirmed bias that the poets remain the most 'stunned by existence,' the most determined to redeem the world in words..”",
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