"'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses
Instead of speech, may form a lasting link
Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces
Frail man, when paper—even a rag like this
Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his."

PB: Cristina Blackwater

"I do not value treasures or riches; it always gives me more pleasure to put wealth in my thought than thought in my wealth."

PB: Gina Rodriguez

"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."

PB: Dev Patel

"We are all divorced from life ... every one of us, more or less. ... We have almost come to look upon real life as an effort, as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books."

PB: Ed Stoppard

"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves."

PB: Callum Blue

"It is a foolish clemency, when you jostle against poets on every streetcorner, to spare paper that will be wasted anyhow."

PB: Miles Teller

"I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

PB: Robert Sheehan

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."

PB: Anna Chancellor

"A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient."

PB: Ezra Miller

"She told him the tale of the living vampyre, who had passed years amidst his friends, and dearest ties, forced every year, by feeding upon the life of a lovely female to prolong his existence for the ensuing months..."

PB: Matthew Daddario

"Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted."

PB: Gugu Mbatha-Raw

"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."

PB: Gillian Anderson