Books Quote by Rickie Lee Jones Download Open image “I think poetry is best read to oneself.” — Rickie Lee Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Oneself Poetry Poetry is Thinking
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background. — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political.… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart. — Rickie Lee Jones 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
