Jamey Sheridan Quotes

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.

I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

I'd love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.

My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

When I was in high school, I remember writing a research paper, and the teacher said I should write about Langston Hughes. I felt as if I was the only black dude who didn't like Langston Hughes. He didn't seem as dark and layered as someone like Flannery O'Connor.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

Early influences included Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Richard Ford, Alice Munro, Denis Johnson - writers who are important to me still and who I discovered through my teachers.

I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd