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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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , War Quotes , Book Quotes
  • I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes
  • The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Regret Quotes , Book Quotes
  • The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Real Quotes , Book Quotes
  • That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Rain Quotes , Book Quotes