Books Quote by Cees Nooteboom Download Open image ““...a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.”” — Cees Nooteboom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Poem Poetry
“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.” — Bethany House Publishers Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.” — John Smyth Copy Share Image
“My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.” — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“His work killed the poet Because he called it complete. After it nothing else could be said.” — Marne L. Kilates Copy Share Image
Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus -… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Kummer hat etwas in den Linien deines Gesichts zu suchen, nicht in deiner Erinnerung.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other. — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end. — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“All right, she thought I was a funny little geezer, but my charred Phaethon had impressed her, I was very obviously available, and she… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is. — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
