After Having Read Quotes
- Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical… — Emile M. Cioran
- When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other… — Jean de la Bruyere
- I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry… — Walter Dean Myers