Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity? — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker 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
Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes… — Donald Bradman 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
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. — Andrew Motion 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
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
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write… — Nicholson Baker 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
Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much… — Edward Hirsch 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
“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 wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn’t how they used to do it a… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public… — John Fuller 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 think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“I don't have a poetry section in the bookshop. (Don't have but should have, I have begun to think. The poetry, like… — Claudia Fitzherbert Copy Share Image
“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader… — William Anderson 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
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf 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
“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
“To tell you the truth, I prefer just your average, run-of-the-mill, everyday jackass with his glass-eyed, slack-jawed obliviousness to the guys who… — John Green 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
“I never went to college. I don’t believe in college for writers. I think too many professors are too opinionated and too… — Ray Bradbury 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
“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
“Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
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 think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading… — Josh Hartnett 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
“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
![“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d17/virginia-woolf-49_air_reading-poetry-you-know-is-rather-like-o_1410961.jpg)
![“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different. I read [in, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot]: This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy. I started to cry. (…)The…” quote by Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ead/jeanette-winterson-166_books_i-wasn-t-reading-poetry-because-my-aim-w_1191707.jpg)
