Books Quote by Roberto Bolaño

“There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before…

— Alan Macfarlane

“It occurred to me all of a sudden, said Amalfitano, it’s a Duchamp idea, leaving a geometry book hanging exposed to the elements to…

— Roberto Bolaño

“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

“an impossible geometry”

— Alessandro Baricco

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole.…

— Julian Coolidge

“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve…

— Paul Valéry

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?”

— Thomas Ligotti

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?" The kid laughed. "I want them all."…

— Jerry Spinelli

“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods,…

— Luisa Weiss