Books Quote by E.E. Cummings Download Open image ““to hell with literature we want something redblooded”” — E.E. Cummings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Literature
“let's start a magazine to hell with literature we want something redblooded lousy with pure reeking with stark and fearlessly obscene but really clean… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The blood: There's nothing like it, the sense of elation, the power. To think the life of a man is pouring into you. Think… — Michael Schiefelbein Copy Share Image
“He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.” — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“whose melancholy could be cured only by the spectacle of death, and who had a passion for red blood, as other men have for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“i am a little church(no great cathedral) far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities --i do not worry if briefer days grow… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“...we're a mystery which will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before...” — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“ If "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,--… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“may i feel, said he i'll squeal, said she just once, said he it's fun, said she may i touch, said he how much,… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too,… — e.e. cummings Copy Share Image
“(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which… — E.E. Cummings 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