#literature quotes
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Leaves of Grass,Walt Whitman
“Here it is, a book that represents the wholeness that I built after everything toppled.”
Little Weirds, Jenny Slate
If you are happy in a dream, does that count?
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
— Clarice Lispector, tr. by Johnny Lorenz, Um Sopro de Vida
Jonathan Safran Foer / John Steinbeck
—Rupi Kaur, Home Body
Franz Kafka // Unknown
Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from Complete Poems; “Tune: The Pertridge Sky,”
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Book Link
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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
— W.H Auden
“Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the kindling of a flame.”
—Socrates
Whatever our souls are made of,
His and mine are the same.
-Emily Brontë
