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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.


Emily Dickinson

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UNKNOWN I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.
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NANCY MITFORD I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have al...
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MARGO JEFFERSON I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
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L.M. MONTGOMERY I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...
NORA EPHRON I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems b...
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ANAT COHEN I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and...
RODMAN PHILBRICK Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of th...
PICO IYER I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not b...
JORGE LUIS BORGES When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book a...
DODIE SMITH If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one.
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR I always wanted to be in love. I didn't know it was the saddest thing I would have ever felt. I trus...
JANELY MONTANO You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's p...
MAURICE SENDAK My passion for that recovery began when I was in grad school. I was assigned to read the women poets...
JOANNE DOBSON I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I ...
SUE MONK KIDD My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH In my defense, I love the book in a postmodern kind of way where I've always sensed that it contains...
CAROLINE KEPNES The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of th...
ANATOLE BROYARD I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
JEFF BRIDGES I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know ...
JAMES HARRINGTON It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not r...
DAVID THEWLIS The blue light is all over. Actually it is within my body. Makes my joints feel all warm.
Vultu...
SANDRA HARNER Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your ...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your p...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
EMINEM I go home to Iowa. I call it defrosting my heart. Everyone in Iowa is so simple, a genuine. In this ...
RILEY SMITH It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ...
RACHEL TUCKER My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And ...
DWYANE WADE I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav...
EDDIE CAMPBELL If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching...
EMILY DICKINSON I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo...
JACKIE COLLINS The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.
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TRUMAN CAPOTE If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?
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ALAN GARNER Well my families done it everybody I know in my families done it as long as I can remember, it seeme...
JOE MARTIN A book can be a great friend, an advisor, a means to an end. A book reveals so much more than a movi...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher...
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS Miss Grantham ordered me to my room and told me no man would ever wish to marry me if I did not lear...
SHERI COBB SOUTH I knew that, in my whole life, if I married Aspen or someone else, no one would ever make me feel th...
KIERA CASS If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ...
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WOODY ALLEN Nothing was ever handed to me. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to re...
GRETCHEN CARLSON I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm.. this body will never keep me safe from harm.
I still feel...
JEFF BUCKLEY When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
NORMAN MAILER I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once...
GORE VIDAL I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book tha...
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COLLEEN BOYD When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th...
AHMET ZAPPA No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the m...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Tears upon tears splat on to the lined pages in my hands as I read about a nightmare come true. Quic...
CAT PATRICK If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book...
BEVERLY CLEARY Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?...
MICHELLE KWAN I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you ...
GORE VIDAL The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my missi...
JANE GOODALL My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
MAHALIA JACKSON The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will c...
EMILY DICKINSON open me carefully
EMILY DICKINSON Nobody ever called me any OH MY GOD you mean that guy that one that set himself on FIRE JOSS WHEDON (Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at th...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I tried to hold fire once...see from a distance it mesmerized me
captivated me
for hours...
SANJO JENDAYI It has classes that will push me toward my career of what i want. And it makes me feel a little easi...
DANIELLE BROWN I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, fl...
JESMYN WARD I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can r...
RICHARD PRICE I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conce...
NOAM CHOMSKY She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES When I read the actual story - how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can't ever be with her no matter h...
MATTHEW QUICK She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I c...
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EMILY DICKINSON A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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EMILY DICKINSON Beauty is not caused. It is.
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EMILY DICKINSON Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's...
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If I can ease on Life the Achin...
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EMILY DICKINSON For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
EMILY DICKINSON Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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One need not be a house;
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'Tis starving makes it fat.
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And sings the tune
Without the...
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EMILY DICKINSON The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
EMILY DICKINSON I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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EMILY DICKINSON Fortune befriends the bold.
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The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And ea...
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And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till...
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If I can ease one life th...
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A th...
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EMILY DICKINSON I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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EMILY DICKINSON Is wholesome even for the King.
EMILY DICKINSON There came a wind like a bugle; / It quivered through the grass.
EMILY DICKINSON I cannot live with You --/ It would be Life --/ And Life is over there --/ Behind the Shelf.
EMILY DICKINSON Water is taught by thirst.
EMILY DICKINSON To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
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EMILY DICKINSON God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
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EMILY DICKINSON Heaven is what I cannot reach!
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EMILY DICKINSON A Deed knocks first at Thought / And then -- it knocks at Will -- / That is the manufacturing spot.
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EMILY DICKINSON A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar - Requires sorest nee...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or ...
EMILY DICKINSON A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
EMILY DICKINSON The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to...
EMILY DICKINSON I felt it shelter to speak to you.
EMILY DICKINSON Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hope...
EMILY DICKINSON Our journey has advanced; / Our feet were almost come / To that odd fork in Being's road,/ Eternity ...
EMILY DICKINSON I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy; ...
EMILY DICKINSON He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He s...
EMILY DICKINSON Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
...
EMILY DICKINSON A great hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within.
EMILY DICKINSON Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
EMILY DICKINSON That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
EMILY DICKINSON Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, a...
EMILY DICKINSON Todo lo que sabemos del amor es que el amor es todo lo que hay.
EMILY DICKINSON We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like cost...
EMILY DICKINSON We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
EMILY DICKINSON The distance that the dead have gone/ Does not at first appear --/ Their coming back seems possible/...
EMILY DICKINSON If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I...
EMILY DICKINSON Remorse --is Memory --awake --/ Her Parties all astir --/ A Presence of Departed Acts --/ At window ...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching...
EMILY DICKINSON I must go in, the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And...
EMILY DICKINSON Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
EMILY DICKINSON That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
EMILY DICKINSON Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpass...
EMILY DICKINSON We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -...
EMILY DICKINSON How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to...
EMILY DICKINSON When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Dis...
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity
EMILY DICKINSON