Individual Quote by Peter Davison

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

— Andrew Motion

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

— Barbara Holland

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

— Derek Walcott

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

— Paul Muldoon

If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than…

— Walt Whitman

More modern poetry is written than read.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but we really…

— Robert Hass

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

— Saul Williams

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

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

— Babette Deutsch