Books Quote by Denise Levertov

The sun shines. Readers read.

— Roderick Townley

“Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!”

— Kelley Lovelace

“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of our misfortune,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“The ancient pages rose among the others, palisaded with strange letters and words, the faint script hardly more readable than the footprints of birds.…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors,…

— W.B. Yeats

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there…

— John Calvin

“And from then on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent, Devouring the green azure where, like a…

— Anonymous

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you…

— Cassandra Clare

“I believe . . . that the petal of a flower or a tiny worm on the path says far more, contains far more…

— Hermann Hesse

“The light shone on a face imprinted with more odd and unwholesome tales than a warehouse full of Bibles.”

— Neil Stephenson

Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón