Books Quote by David Gordon Download Open image ““Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”” — David Gordon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Poetry
“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.” — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult” — Rayvon L. Browne Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.” — John Smyth Copy Share Image
“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.” — Bethany House Publishers Copy Share Image
“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.” — John Cage Copy Share Image
“When I read, the words on the page replace the voice in my head and I cease, for a little while, to be me,… — David Gordon Copy Share Image
“Once, on a sleepless night, I elaborated a whole theory of art predicated on simply reminding the ever-forgetful mind of the most basic truths:… — David Gordon Copy Share Image
“Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.” — David Gordon Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's all art school is. A big clusterfuck for rich poseurs. Who the fuck needs it? But it's a system, right? You have… — David Gordon Copy Share Image
“When people ask what I do, I say: “I’m a teacher.” or: “I proofread legal documents.” or: “I hand out jalapeño humus dip at… — David Gordon Copy Share Image
“But unlike the person with exquisite taste in painting or perfume, the movie nerd is classless as well. Grasping the genius of Russ Meyer… — David Gordon Copy Share Image
“I did not believe in god, but I was beginning to believe in miracles, miracles and whatever is the opposite of miracles, terrible wonders.… — David Gordon Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
