“What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.”
Archibald Macleish (1892–1982) American poet and Librarian of Congress
"The Premise Of Meaning" in American Scholar (5 June 1972)
“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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“Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Source: Role Models
Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.
“Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Source: The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book
Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
Source: Gervaso, Roberto. La mosca al naso, Rizzoli Editore (1980)
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
Source: Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
“No man is more of a stranger to you than you are to him. Receive him with trust.”
Neamat Imam book The Black Coat
The Black Coat (2013)
“The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.”
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
As quoted in The Ibsen Calendar : A Quotation from the Works of Henrik Ibsen for Every Day (1913) by C. A. Arfwedson
Context: The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. The great secret of action and victory is to be capable of living your life without ideals. Such is the sum of the whole world's wisdom.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
Context: No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.