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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."

Lange, Dorothea on photography
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; --poetry = the best words in the best order."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on poetry and poets    Share

"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."

Wolfe, Thomas on books - reading
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"I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them."

Fuentes, Carlos on books - reading    Share

"Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads."

Chesterfield, Lord on books - reading
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"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

Lowell, Amy on books - reading
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"I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs."

Unknown, Source on books - reading
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

Congreve, William on anger
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"The essence of poetry is will and passion."

Hazlitt, William on poetry and poets    Share

"Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."

Hazlitt, William on poetry and poets    Share

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"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart."

Rushdie, Salman on literature    Share

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on literature    Share

"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."

Cocteau, Jean on literature    Share

"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."

Roux, Joseph on science
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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Sandburg, Carl on poetry and poets
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"Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

Sandburg, Carl on poetry and poets    Share

"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky."

Sandburg, Carl on poetry and poets    Share

"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

Hare, David on poetry and poets
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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