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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. -- Diane Wakoski
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. -- Liam Neeson
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. -- Thom Gunn
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. -- Douglas Dunn
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. -- Steven Wright
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. -- John Barton
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else. -- Billy Collins
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. -- John Barton
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. -- Paul Nurse
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 thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. -- Spike Milligan
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. -- Mary Oliver
Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. -- Jessye Norman
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. -- Harold Bloom
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye. -- Seamus Heaney
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. -- A. R. Ammons
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be. -- Alice Oswald
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. -- Sharon Creech
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. -- James Laughlin
The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone. -- James Fenton
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. -- Eileen Myles
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Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. -- Jessye Norman

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