Book of poetry Quotes

“I'm an open book in a closed room.”

“I'm an open book in a closed room.”

“I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.”

“I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.”

“I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.”

“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,'”

“The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.”

“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

“When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.”

“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and those rubber stamps with columns of rotating numbers. "Ms. Auerbach! What will it be today? Camus? Cervantes?" "Actually I'm looking for a book of poetry by Emily Dickinson"He paused somberly, toying with the twirled tip of his mustache. No matter how seriously librarians are engaged in their work, they are always glad to be interrupted when the theme is books. It makes no difference to them how simple the search is or how behind on time either of you might be running - they consider all queries scrupulously. They love to have their knowledge tested. They lie in wait, they will not be rushed.”

“I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.”