Awe Quote by Kathleen Raine

“Books are Windows of Enchantment - through them we can see - the moving spectacle of life: the farce, the tragedy. Every book a…

— Patience Strong

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

— Antonio Gaudi

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.”

— Dorothy Allison

“The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I…

— Geraldine Brooks

Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.

— Michael Morpurgo

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel…

— Laura Nowlin

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

— William Hazlitt

Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.…

— J. C. Ryle

“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems…

— Virginia Woolf

“Books Fall Open Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been. Hear voices not once heard before, Reach world through world,…

— David McCord