Books Quote by René Char

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Most men have learned…

— Thoreau Henry David

“And he gave me a few of the Xeroxed sheets of paper lying on the table in front of him. As he passed them…

— Milorad Pavic

“Next, there was a poet turned to science, and a second poet, and another. And him, the thick turned thin, a starling in my…

— Tina May Hall

“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“He reaches for his pen. He yawns and puts it down and picks it up again. I shall be found dead at my desk,…

— Hilary Mantel

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato

“Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying.…

— Virginia Woolf

“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.”

— Mary Stewart

“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very…

— Walt Whitman

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan