Poetry Quote by Jules Verne

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading…

— Jane Austen

“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an…

— Virginia Woolf

“For many minutes, for many hours, for a bleak eternity, he lay awake, shivering, reduced to primitive terror, comprehending that he had won freedom,…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same…

— Maurice Druon

“Who cannot recall, as I can, the reading they did in the holidays, which one would conceal successively in all those hours of the…

— Marcel Proust

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them poor, perhaps,…

— Anna Kavan

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“As long as a man has, he must give. And when he has nothing more, he is free. This freedom is far nobler than…

— Johannes Tauler

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

“But remember, my reader, whom I hope to have travel far with me through time and space remember, please, my reader, that I have…

— Jack London