Books Quote by E. Millicent Sowerby Download Open image ““Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.”” — E. Millicent Sowerby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Librarians Poetry Poets
“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.” — John Keats 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
