Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

    “But neither milk-white rose nor red
    May bloom in prison air;
    The shard, the pebble, and the flint,
    Are what they give us there:
    For flowers have been known to heal
    A common man’s despair.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The truth in a calm world,
    In which there is no other meaning, itself

    Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
    Is the reader leaning late and reading there.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.”
    —Toi Derricotte (b. 1941)