Poetry Quote by Gary D. Schmidt

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…

— Gary D. Schmidt

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

— Gary D. Schmidt

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

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

— Paul Muldoon

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

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…

— Thomas M. Disch

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say…

— James Laughlin