Books Quote by Alice Oswald

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and…

— Ian Mcewan

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

— Mark Strand

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a…

— Kevin Powers

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…

— Gary D. Schmidt

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of…

— Edward Hirsch

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes…

— Derek Walcott

A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

— Tony Harrison

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual…

— Jonathan Lethem

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and…

— Masiela Lusha