Adrienne Rich Quotes, Art Quotes, Reading Quotes

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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How well he's read, to reason against reading!

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My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

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I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal-federal cufflink.

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Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).

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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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