Best Read Poetry Quotes
40 Read Poetry quotes by 38 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One must read poetry with one's nerves.
— Wallace Stevens
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
— C. K. Williams
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My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
— Guy Johnson
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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: