George Braque (1882-1963 All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) Truth exists. The other person's poem with your extensions, You are supposed to go on with your thinking.

Lee (1918-1994) Remarks are not literature. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am! And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books.

Julia Alvarez (1950- ) Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. Who hear these words, take heart from me. 121-180) Those of you, lost and yearning to be free, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. My anguished life that's cryptic, recondite,Īnd garbled in the tongues of Babel's fall. In that dark scrawl Rome is set down, and Carthage, I, you, all,Īnd this my being which escapes me quite, To Someone, Something, who both day and night You live several lives while reading it.īecause when I read, I don't really read I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.Īll things are words of some strange tongue, in thrall Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Ī great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.

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