Poetry Readings Quotes
- I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. — Leonard Cohen
- Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind… — James Laughlin
- I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions… — Viggo Mortensen
- I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And I… — Jill Scott
- We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris… — Sarah Vowell