Books Quote by Md. Ziaul Haque

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what they do have? Should we teach…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Is it that important? Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what they do…

— Rainbow Rowell

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

“When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.”

— Louise Cowan

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know…

— Renee Watson

“With the poet it was exactly the same as with the hero, and all strong, handsome, high-spirited, non-commonplace figures and enterprises: in the past…

— Hermann Hesse

“Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.”

— Jorge Luis Borges