Read Poetry Quotes
40 quotes by 38 authors
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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
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We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created,…
— Robin Williams
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For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of…
— Thomas M. Disch
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry
— Paul Muldoon
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
— Li-Young Lee
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There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to…
— Rupert Brooke
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Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why…
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a…
— David McCullough
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One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
— Gaston Bachelard
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
— Arnold Bennett
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If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?
— Harvey Jackins
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with…
— William Ernest Henley
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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss,…
— Elizabeth Drew
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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
— Nicholson Baker
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In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school…
— Carol Ann Duffy
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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
— Eminem
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
— Simon Armitage
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On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and…
— Michael Cunningham
Who Wrote These Read Poetry Quotes
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