Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but…

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

— Anonymous

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

— Francis Bacon

“Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”

— Cornelia Funke

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax,…

— Don Paterson

“I don't have a poetry section in the bookshop. (Don't have but should have, I have begun to think. The poetry, like everything else,…

— Claudia Fitzherbert

“I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun,…

— Italo Calvino

“Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and…

— Robin Sloan

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

— Joseph Addison

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing…

— Banksy

I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to…

— Paul Laffoley

I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful…

— Casey Legler

The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the "second mile" and told us to go there.…

— Hartman Rector, Jr

It would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something,

— Casey Legler

I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success, the money,…

— Isabella Rossellini

If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,'…

— Brian Johnson