Book Quote by Kate Beckinsale

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived…

— Grace Paley

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a…

— Ephrem the Syrian

“Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we’re tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems and stories…

— Chuck Wendig

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

— Harvey Pekar

“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

— Paula Rego

“Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.”

— Susan Meissner

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you…

— Anonymous

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and…

— Kevin Young