“The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.” LightAirReaderPartnersToneRevelationsMelodyInvitedBroodingCaptivatingSomber Book:Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black Source: Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
“Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even - "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.” AbleReadingPiecesAirWorstReaderPagesThirdsFaithfulCommentEducateSystematicFrostHaving HopeAtticsHomelyRefutationLaconic Author:Randall Jarrell
“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).” KnowsSeemsReadingDoorsAirReaderTwentiesResponseOpeningSensationsRebelFlashAttackingBlindedHordeSwarmsReading PoetryNo Response Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932 Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932
“On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.” MayFormReadingImaginationFictionAirBearsReaderWingsGentleFancyCastles Book:The cry (1754) Source: The cry (1754)
“Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different.” IfsWayMayBookDifferentPlayLyingSoundBlackVoicePiecesHeardAirReaderMusicianPagesLettersMarkMusicalScoreInterpretationFrozenAlphabetViolinist Author:Margaret Atwood
“I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.” TryingEndsTurnsAirReaderPagesSuspenseChapters Author:Nelson DeMille
“A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.” IfsKnowsBookEndsStoriesReadingKnow HowAirReaderPreservesProseGood WritersHistory Books Author:Thornton Wilder