Reading Poetry

If I read a

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson

How do I love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Reading poetry is an

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

i carry your heart

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart) e. e. cummings

Reading poetry and watching

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

Publishing a volume of

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis

I believe it’s impossible

I believe it’s impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry … Read more

Sexual activity is driven

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