“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.”
— John Keating (Robin Williams), Dead Poets Society (1989)
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.”
— John Keating (Robin Williams), Dead Poets Society (1989)
- Ernest Hemingway, from The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
“Books have led some to learning and others to madness.”
— Petrarch (b. 20 July 1304)
“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”
— Jane Hamilton (b. 13 July 1957)