#read

People have already dirtied my name too much. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#much #name #people #too #too much

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#found #hopeful #inevitable #me #ready

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#just #like #love #made #new

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. ↗

— John Barrymore

#free verse #i #modern #read #set

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? ↗

— John Barton

#any #easily #expect #fast #grasped

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to hear their situation in language, and find a way to talk about it. It allows you to find a language to talk about your own pain. If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that’s what these educators fear. If you really educate these kids, they aren’t going to punch you in the face, they are going to challenge you with your own language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#literacy #online-interview #power-of-reading #reading #death

Reading should be a repeat performance. ↗

— John Barton

#reading #repeat #should

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. ↗

— John Barton

#beginnings #get #i #like #many

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. ↗

— John Barton

#ideal #knows #only #reader #who

I read Russian literature a lot. ↗