Books Quote by David Starkey

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…

— Muriel Rukeyser

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

— Lord Byron

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott

I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it…

— Derek Walcott

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

— Amber Tamblyn

I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that.…

— Edward Hirsch

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan

When I began to write novels, I wanted to keep that element of interaction with the reader that exists in poetry, not just for…

— Michael Ondaatje

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and…

— Alice Walker

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley