Book Quote by Emily Dickinson

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I…

— Anonymous

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean…

— Matthew Zapruder

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

— Paul Celan

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but…

— Herman Melville

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Let's turn now to the citation of authors, found in other books and missing in yours. The solution to this is very simple, because…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Blue is no longer blue; it is the blue of the summer sky when it’s is hot enough to cook eggs on the sidewalk…

— Christina Escamilla

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend…

— Edith Wharton

“All those other summers and those other kisses and everything else we shared, my dad choosing some random lake in some random town to…

— Nyrae Dawn

“Devon stares at him standing there, remembering the only other guy had ever opened a car door for her. Last summer. The sky was…

— Amy Efaw