How to Read Poetry Like a Professor Quotes

“If you want someone to break rules, find an American.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

“Another linguistic accident: an unholy marriage of Greek terminology filtered through Latin. That sort of thing begets monsters.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

“poem is an experiment with and in language, an attempt to discover how best to capture its subject and make readers see it anew.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

“This is based on no science, pseudo of otherwise, but I firmly believe that the elapsed time between the development of language and creation of the first poem was about five minutes.”
― Thomas C. Foster , How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse