Quotes on “literature”

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.