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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world, if poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.

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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore - For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

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Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

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And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.

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Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

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I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

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There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

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