Quote by

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
– Ezra Pound

Related Quotes:

  1. No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound
  2. There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight – Ezra Pound
  3. If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good – Ezra Pound
  4. Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in life. – Kamand Kojouri
  5. Literature is news that stays news. – Ezra Pound
  6. Listen to me, attend me!And I will breathe into thee a soul,And thou shalt live for ever. – Ezra Pound
  7. The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. – Ezra Pound
  8. A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone. – Ezra Pound
  9. Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound
  10. Great Literature is simply language charged to the utmost with meaning – Ezra Pound
  11. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound
  12. The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. – Ezra Pound
  13. Literature is language charged with meaning – Ezra Pound
  14. Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound
  15. Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. – Ezra Pound
  16. In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. – Ezra Pound
  17. If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I’d be a 400 pound guy. – Scott Adams
  18. Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  19. You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball. – Crystal Woods
  20. You don’t need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement. – Amit Ray
  21. A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
  22. Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag
  23. It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. – Clifford Cohen
  24. The minute you see him, your hand will throb, your heart will pound out of your chest, and you won’t be able to breathe. – Jordan Deen
  25. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
  26. So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light,Among the creatures of light, creatures of light. – Ted Hughes
  27. There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
  28. Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. – Walter Sickert
  29. The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  30. You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you – April Nichole
  31. I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. – Benedict Cumberbatch
  32. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. – Oscar Wilde
  33. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally -“ and often far more -“ worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. – CS Lewis
  34. No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50. – Gladys M Hunt
  35. When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  36. If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. – Aman Jassal
  37. It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart. – JEB Spredemann
  38. People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light. – Sunday Adelaja
  39. You’re a bad man who made her pound a shot of Jäger. – Yuhta Nishio
  40. When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading – William Stafford

More Quotes

, , , , , ,