"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."

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"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."

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Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Reading, Courage, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

John Green, American Author

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Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Reading, Questions, Variety, Writing

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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Dean Koontz, American Author

Reading, Read

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C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Old, Patience

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."

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"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."

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"It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!"

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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

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"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."

"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."

"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."

"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."

"Many of my poems are not sexual."

"We control the content of our dreams."

"I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about."

"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex."

"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."

"It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!"