Цитаты о книгах
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avva прочла Quote Garden . Захотелось сделать выписки. Когда я была маленькая, то выписывала в тетрадку только те цитаты, с которыми была согласна. Это прошло. Некоторые из нижеследующих цитат точные, на мой взгляд, наблюдения, некоторые - удачные шутки, некоторые уморительны в своей важной односторонности. Причем, грань между этими категориями плавает и зависит от времени дня, настроения и наполненности желудка. А еще там есть цитата из Цветаевой в переводе на английский. Как по мне, очень смешно.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? ~Marina Tsvetaeva
Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.
~Strickland Gillilan
He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ~Voltaire
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ~Anatole France
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. ~Jeremy Collier
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. ~Lord Chesterfield
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier
Update: шла по 41й (кажется) улице в Манхеттене, смотрю, в асфальт вделаны железные плиты с цитатами о книгах. События любят рифмоваться. А я люблю, когда они рифмуются.
Ещё Update: Кстати, о рифмах (о красавице в другой раз, сейчас для меня важно, как Пастернак о сути рифмы написал).
Красавица моя, вся стать,
Вся суть твоя мне по сердцу,
Вся рвется музыкою стать,
И вся на рифмы просится.
А в рифмах умирает рок,
И правдой входит в наш мирок
Миров разноголосица.
И рифма не вторенье строк,
А гардеробный номерок,
Талон на место у колонн
В загробный гул корней и лон.
И в рифмах дышит та любовь,
Что тут с трудом выносится,
Перед которой хмурят брось
И морщат переносицу.
И рифма не вторенье строк,
Но вход и пропуск за порог,
Чтоб сдать, как плащ за бляшкою
Болезни тягость тяжкую,
Боязнь огласки и греха
За громкой бляшкою стиха.
Красавица моя, вся суть,
Вся стать твоя, красавица,
Спирает грудь и тянет в путь,
И тянет петь и - нравится.
Тебе молился Поликлет.
Твои законы изданы.
Твои законы в далях лет,
Ты мне знакома издавна.
1931
avva прочла Quote Garden . Захотелось сделать выписки. Когда я была маленькая, то выписывала в тетрадку только те цитаты, с которыми была согласна. Это прошло. Некоторые из нижеследующих цитат точные, на мой взгляд, наблюдения, некоторые - удачные шутки, некоторые уморительны в своей важной односторонности. Причем, грань между этими категориями плавает и зависит от времени дня, настроения и наполненности желудка. А еще там есть цитата из Цветаевой в переводе на английский. Как по мне, очень смешно.Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? ~Marina Tsvetaeva
Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.
~Strickland Gillilan
He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ~Voltaire
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ~Anatole France
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. ~Jeremy Collier
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. ~Lord Chesterfield
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier
Update: шла по 41й (кажется) улице в Манхеттене, смотрю, в асфальт вделаны железные плиты с цитатами о книгах. События любят рифмоваться. А я люблю, когда они рифмуются.
Ещё Update: Кстати, о рифмах (о красавице в другой раз, сейчас для меня важно, как Пастернак о сути рифмы написал).
Красавица моя, вся стать,
Вся суть твоя мне по сердцу,
Вся рвется музыкою стать,
И вся на рифмы просится.
А в рифмах умирает рок,
И правдой входит в наш мирок
Миров разноголосица.
И рифма не вторенье строк,
А гардеробный номерок,
Талон на место у колонн
В загробный гул корней и лон.
И в рифмах дышит та любовь,
Что тут с трудом выносится,
Перед которой хмурят брось
И морщат переносицу.
И рифма не вторенье строк,
Но вход и пропуск за порог,
Чтоб сдать, как плащ за бляшкою
Болезни тягость тяжкую,
Боязнь огласки и греха
За громкой бляшкою стиха.
Красавица моя, вся суть,
Вся стать твоя, красавица,
Спирает грудь и тянет в путь,
И тянет петь и - нравится.
Тебе молился Поликлет.
Твои законы изданы.
Твои законы в далях лет,
Ты мне знакома издавна.
1931
