Poetry Love Quotes

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.

The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

I love, loved, loved 'We Real Cool' by Gwendolyn Brooks.

I like Al Purdy.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

I love to write music and poetry.

I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

I love words; I love poetry.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.