Poetry Quote by Chris Kraus

Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of…

— Richelle Mead

“Again, all who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same…

— Richard de Bury

“Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local and particular character, of a particular culture in this awful maelstrom,…

— Ezra Pound

“A local butcher offered me money to put in my next book a portrayal of a customer he didn't like that would make him…

— John McGahern

“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about leaving the…

— Vivian Gornick

“His speech is low and rapid, his manner assured; he is at home in courtroom or waterfront, bishop’s palace or inn yard. He can…

— Hilary Mantel

A good dinner brings out all the softer side of a man. Under its genial influence the gloomy and morose become jovial and chatty.…

— Jerome K Jerome

“He would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them poor, perhaps,…

— Anna Kavan

“If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.”

— A. H. Septimius

“His head propped on a stack of poetry books he’d brought from the library. Almost all of them had been inscribed on the inside…

— Cassandra Clare