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

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. — Alberto Manguel

Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft. — Robert Lacey

Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them. — Jenim Dibie

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. — Paul Muldoon

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act. — Peter O'Toole

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

Thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies ... your neck, can I Savion on it? — Brandi L. Bates

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. — Anne Lamott

Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity. — Michael P. Naughton

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading. — David Starkey

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. — Dave Mearns

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare

Poetry is not the most important thing in life ... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. — Dylan Thomas

True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Poetry is a connection to a change within you. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater. — A.R. Ammons

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. — Satya Nadella

The ultimate aim of reading or writing poetry is to enrich one's life experience. — Marty Rubin

The act of love and the act of poetry
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper — Andre Breton

A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. — Jeanette Winterson

The poetry made her uncomfortable. It was too much like reading spells. — Shirley Rousseau Murphy

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader. — Jenim Dibie

A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story. — Rachel Lewis

Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more. — Jennifer A. Marshall

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. — Ian McEwan

I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience. — Eugene H. Peterson

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. — John Barton

I love the pleasure of reading poetry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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. — Mark Strand

At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth. — Lisel Mueller

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity. — Donald Hall

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it. — John Ciardi

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. — Reynolds Price

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

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. — Jenim Dibie

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. — Bindi Irwin

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson

I think the first reading of a poem is a true one, and after that we delude ourselves into the belief that the sensation, the impression, is repeated. — Jorge Luis Borges

The voice you hear when you read to yourself
is the clearest voice: you speak it
speaking to you. — Thomas Lux

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. — Phyllis McGinley

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. — Jeanette Winterson

People who write poetry while walking their dog can't possibly write poetry i'd be fucking interested in — Martijn Benders

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading. — Billy Collins

I read for pleasure
In search of fictional worlds
To enrich my truths — A.A. Patawaran

You read my words and instantly we are both connected — Richard L. Ratliff

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — L.M. Elliott

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. — Gaston Bachelard

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

A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise. — Sanober Khan

It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it. — Richard Russo

When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. "& I love Wordplay — Elijah Cainaan

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read. — Jim Shepard

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry. — Sally Mann

Attending a poetry reading is like being in a hospital," he said as we left the next station. "Full of neuroses. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If people read poetry, they would be happier. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. — Pat Conroy

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory. — Robert Pinsky

If you're reading this ...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is. — Chad Sugg

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. — James Tate

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose! — Cupideros

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. — Peter Davison

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour. — Clive James

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. — Phyllis McGinley

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity? — Rabindranath Tagore

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think. — Emily Dickinson

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry. — Christopher Koch

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him. — R.M. Engelhardt

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it. — T. S. Eliot

You fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought ... — John Geddes

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. — Macklemore