Poetry Quote by Nicholson Baker — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”

“But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.”

“They call each other ‘E.’ Elvis picks”

“Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,”

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”

“I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas.”

“Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.”

“He ate and drank the precious words,”