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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.