Book Quote by Emily Dickinson

There is no frigate like a book

— Emily Dickinson

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

— Emily Dickinson

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

— Joseph Joubert

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could…

— Rachel Carson

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

— William Carlos Williams

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

— Horatio Nelson

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

— Lord North

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

— Erin Morgenstern

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

— Carl Sandburg

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

— Anonymous