I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.
I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
