Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

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

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

I always turn to Frank O'Hara and David Berman's 'Actual Air,' which came out in 1999. He's a poet I haven't tired of.

Age affects how people experience time.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.