Books Quote by Shweta Suvarna

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a…

— Robert Morgan

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

— Anonymous

“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

— Anne Stevenson

“Who will read these poems when the people are gone?”

— Dominic Owen Mallary

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

— Mary Oliver

I was shy at school, but not at home. We had a boiler that had tiles around it, so if my sister and I…

— Sarah Millican

Looking across the many strands of poetry, we can never be certain which poems were only read in private and which were performed -…

— Michael Rosen

“Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you’ve got the usual gang of idiots (as the Mad magazine…

— Stephen King

“These ears aren't to be trusted. The keening in the night, didn't you hear? Once I believed all the stories didn’t have endings, but…

— Jeannine Hall Gailey

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

— Alice Hoffman

I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch 'Downton Abbey'…

— Noah Hawley

“She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath…

— Alice Walker

I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much…

— Rachel Kushner