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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
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
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 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
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
I love the pleasure of reading poetry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.
— Lisel Mueller
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
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 yourselfis 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
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[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 pleasureIn 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, alonecan 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
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
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
Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.
— James Tate
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
