"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."

God,

13

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."

Exlpore more God quotes

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

God,

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""

C. S. Lewis, British Author

God, Right, Will

"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

God, Spiritual, Truth, Life, Power

"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God,

"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

God, Ability, Man

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

God, Lie, Being, Reason

"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

God,

"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

God, Men, Nurses

"God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

God, Angels, Enemies, Potential

Explore more quotes by John Barton

"Reading should be a repeat performance."

Reading

"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."

Theory

"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."

Family

"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."

Art

"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."

God

"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."

Time

"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

Poet

"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

Poems

"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."

Time

"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."

Hope