Books Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a bookkeeper forever, and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.”

— Jeremy Young

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“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

“I am poetry, surrounding the dreamer, Ever present, I capture the spirit, enslave the reluctant pen, and become the breath on the writer's only…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“There is beauty in each word of a Book; as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!”

— Mrudula G B

“This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I will go…

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

“Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don’t care if I write a great book anymore, but just…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as…

— Washington Irving