Books Quote by Peter J. Daniels Download Open image “Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.” — Peter J. Daniels ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Clarity Firsts Literature Poetry Strangeness
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book. — George Murray Copy Share Image
I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
“There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about… — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years… — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life,… — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment. — Peter J. Daniels 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
