Books Quote by Wallace Stevens

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

— Gaston Bachelard

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

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

I've a poet's sensitivity.

— Dharmendra

I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained…

— Amy Lowell

“According to my poetry perception, Write one a day with no exception; Read out loud and start to practice, Not sounding like you sat…

— James Hawthorne Horn

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

— Kim Hyesoon