Read Poetry Quotes

40 quotes by 38 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon
• 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
• People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush. — Li-Young Lee
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things. — Gaston Bachelard
• I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett
• If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations? — Harvey Jackins
• 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
• 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
• When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker
• 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
• 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
• I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. — Eminem
• People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. — Simon Armitage
• 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

38 authors contributed a total of 40 Read Poetry Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Read Poetry Quotes by Wallace Stevens
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Eugene H. Peterson
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Carol Ann Duffy
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Eminem
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Simon Armitage
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Michael Cunningham
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Marie Howe
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Abraham Verghese
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Marilyn Monroe
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Robert Morgan
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Peter Kropotkin
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Muriel Rukeyser
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Francesca Lia Block
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Gary D. Schmidt
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Megan Whalen Turner
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Leonard Cohen
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Anne Rice
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Robin Williams
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Jonathan Haidt
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Thomas M. Disch
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by John Taylor Gatto
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Paul Muldoon
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by C. K. Williams