Biographers Quote by Virginia Woolf

If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in…

— Huston Smith

I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part…

— James A. Michener

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

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that ,…

— W. H. Auden

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes…

— Derek Walcott

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them,…

— Robert Graves

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in…

— Edward Hirsch

every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we…

— Virginia Woolf

“Would that we might spare the reader what is to come and say to him in so many words, Orlando died and was buried.…

— Virginia Woolf

There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her,…

— Edmund Spenser

The poet is always our contemporary.

— Virginia Woolf