Famous quotes containing the words book and/or rich:
“No man ever walked down to posterity with so small a book under his arm.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“No one lives in this room
without confronting the whiteness of the wall
behind the poems, planks of books,
photographs of dead heroines.
Without contemplating last and late
the true nature of poetry. The drive
to connect. The dream of a common language.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)