Quotes About Literature

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

That's all you really hope for from a book – that it's going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.