Air Quote by Virginia Woolf

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

— Carl Sandburg

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a…

— Kevin Powers

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

— Edward Hirsch

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

— Jeanette Winterson

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

— Carl Sandburg

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

— Octavio Paz

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

— Adrienne Rich

“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read…

— Adam Zagajewski