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“Throw that dreary man Cicero out of the window, and request the divine Virgil (with the utmost love and respect) to take a seat…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“…Let all lights but yours be nothing to me. Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or quake. But…

— W.S. Merwin

“And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams. And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words…

— Hélène Cixous

“I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.”

— Leonard Cohen

“Where are your books? - that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men…

— William Wordsworth

“And those tears came from the dark, cold place inside me that his words, those three beautiful words, had begun to thaw and shine…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“But out of all secrets of the river, he today only saw one, this one touched his soul. He saw: this water ran and…

— Hermann Hesse

“The lamp of light.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The poet is a pure spring from which all thirsty souls may drink.”

— Anonymous

“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold -…

— Howard Carter

“I inherited my sense of passion and romance from the Romans. Specifically Nero and all the fire he possessed.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I had a dream about you. You told me you circled three words in three books scattered in the Library of Alexandria, the one…

— Jarod Kintz