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[Quote No.18042] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought, which they did not uncover to their bosom friend, is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.18043] Need Area: Fun > Books
"From this slender beginning I have gradually formed a numerous and select library...the best comfort of my life, both at home and abroad." - Edward Gibbon
(1737 - 1794) English historian
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[Quote No.18044] Need Area: Fun > Books
"No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches that increase by being consumed, and pleasures, which never cloy." - John Alfred Langford
(1823 - 1908) English author and journalist
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[Quote No.18130] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general, once skillfully determined, the battle is already half won." - Christian Nestell Bovee
(1820 - 1904) American author and editor
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[Quote No.18131] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books only partially represent their authors; the writer is always greater than his work." - Christian Nestell Bovee
(1820 - 1904) American author and editor
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[Quote No.18132] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fullness of intellectual and moral life, from energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened religion.[or ethics]" - William Ellery Channing
(1780 - 1842) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.18133] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places, and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106 B.C. - 43 B.C.) Roman orator
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[Quote No.18134] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There, is first, the literature of knowledge; and, secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is, to teach; the second is, to move; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy." - Thomas de Quincey
(1785-1859), English author and intellectual
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[Quote No.18365] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Journalism is literature in a hurry." - Matthew Arnold
(1822 - 1888) English educator and author
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[Quote No.18371] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Over the door of a library in Thebes is the inscription 'Medicine for the soul'." - Diodorus Siculus
(90 B.C. to 21 B.C.), Sicilian Greek historian
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[Quote No.18638] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The press is good or evil according to the character of those who direct it. It is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread." - William Cullen Bryant
(1794-1878), American poet
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[Quote No.18647] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement, and invalidism with an available and harmless solace." - Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813 - 71) American author and art critic
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[Quote No.18648] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Before I translated the New Testament out of the Greek, all longed after it; when it was done, their longing lasted scarce four weeks. Then they desired the books of Moses; when I had translated these, they had enough thereof in a short time. After that, they would have the Psalms; of these they were soon weary, and desired other books. So it will be with the book of Ecclesiastes, which they now long for, and about which I have taken great pains. All is acceptable until our giddy brains are satisfied; afterwards we let familiar things lie, and seek after new." - Martin Luther
(1483 - 1546) German religionist reformer
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[Quote No.18791] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television." - Andrew Ross
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[Quote No.18874] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real..." - Simone Weil
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[Quote No.18962] Need Area: Fun > Books
"And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life." - Robert Penn Warren
(1905 - 1989) U.S. novelist and poet
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[Quote No.18963] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully." - William Cullen Bryant
(1794 - 1878) American poet
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[Quote No.18964] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, [and] strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings..." - William Ellery Channing
(1780 - 1842) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.18965] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth." - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
(1814 - 1880) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.18968] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us." - Thomas Stearns Eliot
(1888 - 1965) British poet and critic
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[Quote No.18969] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words." - Paul Engle
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[Quote No.18970] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." - Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963) American poet
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[Quote No.18971] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it in silence for years, something resulted which might be regarded as a creation of mine; and finally, all at once, and almost instinctively, as if it had become ripe, I set it down on paper." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832) German poet, dramatist and philosopher
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[Quote No.18972] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Powerful poems have...] Thoughts that breathe and words that burn." - Thomas Gray
(1716-1771) English poet
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[Quote No.18973] Need Area: Fun > Books
"When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35th U.S. President - at Amherst College when honoring poet, Robert Frost.
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[Quote No.18974] Need Area: Fun > Books
"All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807 - 1882) American poet
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[Quote No.18975] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Carlyle once said of Tennyson: 'Alfred is always carrying a bit of chaos around with him, and turning it into cosmos'. Well, that is poetry's job. And it is amazingly like the enterprise of life." - John Livingstone Lowes
(1867 - 1945) U.S. critic and literary scholar
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[Quote No.18976] Need Area: Fun > Books
"By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors." - Thomas Babington Macaulay
(1800 - 1859) English critic and historian
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[Quote No.18977] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is fact given over to imagery." - Rod Marvin McKuen
(1933 - ) U.S. composer, poet, singer, and songwriter
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[Quote No.18978] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June." - Jean-Paul Sartre
(1905-1980), French existentialist philosopher and writer.
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[Quote No.18980] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Truth shines the brighter clad in verse [in a poem especially rhyming poetry]." - Alexander Pope
(1688 - 1744) English poet
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[Quote No.18981] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own." - Salvatore Quasimodo
(1901 - 1968) Italian critic, poet, and translator
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[Quote No.18982] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all those incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers." - Jean Paul Richter
(1763 - 1826) German humorist
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[Quote No.18983] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly." - Frederick William Robertson
(1816 - 1853) English divine
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[Quote No.18985] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is the presentment in musical form to the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." - John Ruskin
(1819 - 1900) English critic, essayist and social reformer
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[Quote No.18987] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792 - 1822) English poet
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[Quote No.18988] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those, which are felt to be preeminently musical." - William Shenstone
(1714 - 1763) English poet
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[Quote No.18989] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises." - Edith Sitwell
(1887 - 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist, and poet
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[Quote No.18990] Need Area: Fun > Books
"One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in fewer words, than prose." - Francois Marie de Voltaire
(1694 - 1778) French poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.18991] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Verses, which do not teach men new and moving truths, do not deserve to be read." - Francois Marie de Voltaire
(1694 - 1778) French poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.18992] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking." - John Wain
(1925 - 1994) English writer and critic
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[Quote No.18993] Need Area: Fun > Books
"But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents." - William Carlos Williams
(1883 - 1963) U.S. poet
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[Quote No.18994] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is the intellect colored by feelings." - Prof. Wilson
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[Quote No.18995] Need Area: Fun > Books
"For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibly, had also thought long and deeply. I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity; the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of re-action, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually in the mind." - William Wordsworth
(1770 - 1850) English poet
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[Quote No.18996] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquillity." - William Wordsworth
(1770 - 1850) English poet
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[Quote No.18997] Need Area: Fun > Books
"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket." - John Adams
(1735 - 1826) 2nd U.S. President
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[Quote No.18998] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There are other similarities between poetry and children's speech. Poets tend to look for significant evocative detail - something straight out of life - to carry their meaning, and to avoid the vaguely general or abstract terms. With young children it is not a matter of choice. Their ideas must take a concrete form of expression because they have not mastered the art of masking and handling [Sign - mind] abstraction. A five - year - old boy in an infant's class once said, 'Oh, yes, I know Geography. Its polar bears at the top and penguins at the bottom'." - James Britton
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[Quote No.18999] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Most joyful the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see. " - William Ellery Channing
(1780 - 1842) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.19000] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Take the commonplace, clean and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job.
" - Jean Cocteau
(1889 - 1963) French poet, playwright and film director
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[Quote No.19003] Need Area: Fun > Books
"He who finds elevated and lofty pleasure in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime." - Amantine Lucile Aurore Dudevant
(1804 - 1876) French novelist
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