Quotes by Reading

Reading one’s own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet’s tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.

I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Understand, I’ll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I’ll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.