Logo
Quote by Roger McGough
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they fe

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because youve done a comedy performance but because youre talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. – Roger McGough

Other quotes by Roger McGough

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you dont have to tell anyone youre doing it. – Roger McGough

Category:
Poetry
Author
Roger McGough
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

Category:
Poetry

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Poetry

Its something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone elses poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because youre too awkward to do it. – John Cusack

Category:
Poetry

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because were not getting those things from our communities or from each other. – Naomi Klein

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Most people…find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. – Howard Davies

Category:
Banks / Banking

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. – Proverb

Category:
Faith

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. – George McGovern

Category:
Home

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasnt bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps. – Warwick Davis

Category:
Attitude