Books Quote by Anonymous

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

— Tony Harrison

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning…

— Edward Hirsch

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent,…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the…

— Henry David Thoreau

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

— Anonymous

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

“It reminds me of poets, before all this—how the sensitive souls who submitted their work to literary journals outnumbered those who read those same…

— Adrian Barnes

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

“The secret to an author’s journey is to take it one page at a time…”

— Jo-Ann M. Rodriguez

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

— H. M. Tomlinson

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

— Wallace Stevens