...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

seribulan

      “Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”  
  ―    Edgar Allan Poe

seribulan

      “With a chaste heart
With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty
Holding the leash of blood
So that it might leap out and trace your outline
Where you lie down in my Ode
As in a land of forests or in surf
In aromatic loam, or in sea music

Beautiful nude
Equally beautiful your feet
Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound
Your ears, small shells
Of the splendid American sea
Your breasts of level plentitude
Fulfilled by living light
Your flying eyelids of wheat
Revealing or enclosing
The two deep countries of your eyes

The line your shoulders have divided into pale regions
Loses itself and blends into the compact halves of an apple
Continues separating your beauty down into two columns of
Burnished gold
Fine alabaster
To sink into the two grapes of your feet
Where your twin symmetrical tree burns again and rises
Flowering fire
Open chandelier
A swelling fruit
Over the pact of sea and earth

From what materials
Agate?
Quartz?
Wheat?
Did your body come together?
Swelling like baking bread to signal silvered hills
The cleavage of one petal
Sweet fruits of a deep velvet
Until alone remained
Astonished
The fine and firm feminine form

It is not only light that falls over the world spreading inside your body
Yet suffocate itself
So much is clarity
Taking its leave of you
As if you were on fire within

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”  
  ―    Pablo Neruda

seribulan

      “If I had a soul I sold it
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my essence”  
  ―    Allen Ginsberg

naz1641

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written" ~ Oscar Wilde

naz1641

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Guccibamboo

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

bianglala

“That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.”

- If You Could See Me Now : CECELIA AHERN

bianglala

“Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part.”

If You Could See Me Now : CECELIA AHERN

bianglala

“Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.”

If You Could See Me Now : CECELIA AHERN

bianglala

“Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.”

P.S. I Love You : CECELIA AHERN

bianglala

“Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane”

- Love, Rosie : CECELIA AHERN

bianglala

“Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.”

-Thanks for the Memories : CECELIA AHERN

bianglala

“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.”

We Are Water : WALLY LAMB

bianglala

“Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.”

The Hour I First Believed : WALLY LAMB

bianglala

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”

Never Let Me Go : KAZUO ISHIGURO

bianglala

“When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.”

An Artist of the Floating World : KAZUO ISHIGURO

seribulan

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!” — Dr. Seuss

seribulan

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Confucius

naz1641

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit em, but remember that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” —To Kill a Mockingbird

naz1641

“I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.”—East of Eden