Best Reading Poetry Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.”

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Author:Suman Pokhrel

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness.”

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Book:भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]

Source: भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]

“Poetry is less a respecter of individual persons than it is a compassionate witness to the meanings of the secret language that beats inside human hearts, the music that pulses through human cries, and the divinity which shines love beyond the veils of human limitations.”

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Book:Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“It may be that poetry’s real beauty and elegance is not its finely-chiseled lines or smoothly-rounded ideological concepts at all. The crown of its significance might be––or possibly should be?––its expansive capacity to embrace with equal passion the deadliest failings and the most splendid victories defining human existence.”

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Book:Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“Read the poem through again—but read it out loud. We have suggested this before, in the case of poetic dramas like Shakespeare's. There it was helpful; here it is essential. You will find, as you read the poem out loud, that the very act of speaking the words forces you to understand them better. You cannot glide over a misunderstood phrase or line quite so easily if you are speaking it. Your ear is offended by a misplaced emphasis that your eyes might miss. And the rhythm of the poem, and its rhymes, if it has them, will help you to understand by making you place the emphasis where it belongs. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 224]”

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Author:Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”

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Author:John Fowles

“Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.”

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Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

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Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud.”

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Author:Yvor Winters

“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).”

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Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932

“I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and making sweet love to their victims, you know, it's not really all that scary.”

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Author:Josh Hartnett

“I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.”

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Author:Cate Marvin

“Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.”

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Author:Colin Wilson

“Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.”

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Author:A. E. Housman

“I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.”

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Author:Denise Duhamel

“I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions of poetry have been getting far off from normal life, so that to have a prose bridge makes reading poetry seem more natural.”

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Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.”

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Author:Betty Friedan

“When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.”

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Author:Lynda Barry

“I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, you're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something. And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'”

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Author:Jill Scott

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”

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Book:The Prose of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Prose of Oscar Wilde

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”

Book:Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte

Source: Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.”

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Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.”

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”

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Author:Paul Engle

“Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”

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Book:The route as briefed

Source: The route as briefed

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.”

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Author:Paul Engle

“Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.”

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Author:Donald Bradman

“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. It’s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poems—and to people—without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be.”

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Author:Christian Wiman

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”

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Author:Emily Dickinson

“When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.”

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Author:Nicholson Baker

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”

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Author:Rita Dove

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

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Book:How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

Source: How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

“In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?”

Source: Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

“If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.”

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Author:Mark Strand

“In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.”

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Author:Phyllis McGinley

“I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.”

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Author:Jesmyn Ward

“Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.”

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Author:J. Courtney Sullivan

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