Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

I’ve only written one science-fiction book: ‚Fahrenheit 451.‘ That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

On the subject of literary genres, I’ve always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I’d love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

I grew up reading science fiction.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Why should poetry have to make sense?