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.
Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there.
The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading.
Guess I’ve been reading too much fantasy.
I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
