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- In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. -- Phyllis McGinley
- More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. -- Andrew Motion
- And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. -- Peter Davison
- 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
- 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!' -- Jill Scott
- 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. -- Jill Scott
- Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. -- Phyllis McGinley
- When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. -- Nicholson Baker
- The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. -- Lynda Barry
- 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
- 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. -- Colin Wilson
- 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... -- Laurie Halse Anderson
- 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 ... -- Yvor Winters
- 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. -- 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. -- Edward Hirsch
- 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. -- Josh Hartnett
- 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. -- A. E. Housman
- 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. -- William Empson
- It is absurd and anti-life to be a 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. -- John Taylor Gatto
- Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. -- John Barton
- I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. -- Bindi Irwin
- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. -- Paul Muldoon
- Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. -- Antonin Artaud
- The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. -- Reynolds Price
- The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. -- Robert Littell
- 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
- I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. -- Leonard Cohen
- 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. -- John Holmes
- 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
- Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. -- Patrick White
- I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on. -- Corin Nemec
- I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. -- Mary Pope Osborne
- When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz. -- John Fuller
- Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. -- Pat Conroy
- Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity? -- Rabindranath Tagore
- We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it. -- T. S. Eliot
- Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. -- Edward Hirsch
- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry -- Paul Muldoon
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- I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading. -- David Starkey
- Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour. -- Clive James
- Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. -- Macklemore
- Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. -- Ian Mcewan
- I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. -- Stephen Dobyns
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. -- Robert Morgan
- My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence. -- Michael Sheen
- 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. -- Jesmyn Ward
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