Alive Quote by Ezra Pound

Properly, we should read for power.

— Ezra Pound

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

— Ezra Pound

I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

— Naomi Alderman

What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

— John Spence

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark.…

— James Salter

“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make…

— Aldous Huxley

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

— Marcus Garvey

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special…

— Wendell Phillips

“If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retentiveness.”

— Montaigne

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing…

— Owen Barfield

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running…

— Jeremy Collier