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 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
“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
Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to… — Betty Friedan 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
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or… — Jill Scott 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
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
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
“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
“They snatched that from me which I still held. They vied with each other in reading poetry to me in sheltered corners.… — Elizabeth von Arnim 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
“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
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
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed… — Colin Wilson 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
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could… — Han Nolan Copy Share Image
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
