Ideas Quote by Cate Marvin

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

— James Arthur

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

— Mary Oliver

I had no idea, when I was writing early on, that my poems would be published or read by anyone, never mind people I…

— Denise Duhamel

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people…

— Wislawa Szymborska

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question…

— Anonymous

I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and…

— Alice Fulton

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself.…

— Dan Chiasson

It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but we really…

— Robert Hass

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've…

— Edward Hirsch

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm…

— Diane Wakoski