Books Quote by Charles Williams

“I see the process of reaching out, sharing yourself, communicating, establishing contact between two people as similar to, if not the same as, the…

— Karina Szczurek

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out…

— Amos Oz

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers…

— Paul Auster

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

“It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times…

— Edna O'Brien

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan

“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery…

— Ron Starbuck

“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression…

— Frank L. DeSilva

Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that…

— Robert Graves

“Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.”

— Robertson Davies

“Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship…

— Steve Maraboli

“I am committed by trade to urging people to attend carefully to the verbal surfaces of what they read. Much of the pleasure and…

— Stephen Greenblatt