Poetry Reading Quotes

Poetry Reading Quote of the day

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.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

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

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

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

Is the healing process the writing or the reading of that writing?What are we all healing from? Ourselves?What are we all healing towards? Ourselves?