If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“I suppose I could have been nicer when I was at Columbia. I could have been polite, respectful, turned in my papers… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet,… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how… — Kenn Kaufman Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Stani walks in later, glaring at them both. “Bloody bastards. One minute punching each other, next minute reading poetry. What’s wrong with… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Or reading poetry. Now there was a job that should exist. To spend one’s days in the company of Blake and Dickinson,… — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the… — Ivan M. Granger Copy Share Image
“I'm angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was playing a singer-songwriter, so I started writing, and I started going up to different places around Los Angeles and reading… — Inbar Lavi Copy Share Image
It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
