Home » Quote » Marilyn Monroe » „I read poetry to save time.“ „I read poetry to save time.“ — Marilyn Monroe Tags:ReadingTime Related quotes „Long ago I studied the ancient Indian languages, and while I was chiefly interested at that time in philosophy, I read a little poetry too; and I know that my own poetry shows the influence of Indian thought and sensibility.“ — T.S. Eliot „Poetry must be read to be poetry. It may be that one reader is all that I deserve. If this is so, I want that reader to be you.“ — William Saroyan „I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.“ — Mary Oliver „If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.“ — Emily Dickinson