Books Quote by Agatha Christie

“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity.”

— Agatha Christie

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“The history of man is a must read poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry — all of the past you read is usually quite great — but it is a…

— Frank O'Hara

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading…

— Jane Austen

“The words of the letter had long since been whisked away by time, but the poems he kept prisoner in his heart.”

— Felix Alexander

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ”

— Vaclav Havel