Books Quote by Irène Némirovsky

“The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty That had their haunts in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“God who spoke the world into existence with words is, in fact, the source of meaning of all words. My journey toward that discovery…

— Karen Swallow Prior

“Each word's evocative value or virtue, its individual power of touching springs in the mind and of initiating visions, becomes a treasure to revel…

— Charles Edward Montague

“Standing upright in the solitude of his room, he vowed that he would be the first poet of his race and bring immortal lustre…

— Orlando Virginia Dalloway

“words carry colors and sounds into the flesh”

— Anaïs Nin

“And blood, in all the cities through which he passed, ran down. There seemed no door, anywhere, behind which blood did not call out,…

— James Baldwin

“He is everything she expected, all that she seeks: hushed, musical eerie voice, dark looks, dreamy haunted expression, an adventurer of the imagination. Words…

— Orna Ross

“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors,…

— W.B. Yeats

“The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words…

— Kate DiCamillo

“By AD 800, so redeemed was Arabic from the contempt in which it had once been held that its sound had come to rank…

— Tom Holland

“…[L]ike a redbud’s crumpled branch you lie beside me so beautiful, so broken, so like Istanbul as the curtains lift on the wind the…

— Gokçenur C

“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau