Best Read Poetry Quotes

40 Read Poetry quotes by 38 unique authors

• Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water,… — Wallace Stevens
• Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills,… — Aldous Huxley
• Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from… — Peter Kropotkin
• No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it,… — Muriel Rukeyser
• One must read poetry with one's nerves. — Wallace Stevens
• She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary… — Francesca Lia Block
• You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two… — Gary D. Schmidt
• Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with… — Megan Whalen Turner
• Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another,… — Anne Rice
• If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your… — Jonathan Haidt
• It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want… — John Taylor Gatto
• My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing. — C. K. Williams
• My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. — Guy Johnson
• To all men who read poetry; I bet if women had dicks, they'd shove them in your mouths to shut you the fuck up. — Nikhil Saluja

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 William Ernest Henley
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Thomas M. Disch
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Simon Armitage
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Rupert Brooke
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Robin Williams
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Robert Morgan
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Peter Kropotkin
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Paul Muldoon
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Nikhil Saluja
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Nicholson Baker
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Muriel Rukeyser
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Michael Cunningham
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Megan Whalen Turner
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Marilyn Monroe
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Marie Howe
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Li-Young Lee
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Leonard Cohen
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Jonathan Haidt
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by John Taylor Gatto
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Harvey Jackins
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Guy Johnson
• 1 Read Poetry Quote by Gaston Bachelard