“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”
Source: The Prince of Tides, character Henry Wingo, chapter 2, page 53 (e-book edition)
“The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library... Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.”
"Poetry" (1977)
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And all of the noise and the clamor in the library ceased, and there was a hush in the library, for all of the books knew who the real master of the library was.
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Tout livre a pour collaborateur son lecteur
Source: Biographical notice http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/maurice-barres-499.php on Evene
Rachel Carson
(1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist
Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952); also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 91
Context: The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities. If they are not there, science cannot create them. If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
