Books Quote by Kevin Powers

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of…

— Edward Hirsch

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

— Anonymous

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a…

— Kevin Powers

I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions of poetry…

— William Empson

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

— Wallace Stevens

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

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

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality,…

— Jason Reynolds

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read…

— Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett