Common Reading Experience

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

“The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion—the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt—both with the common motion and with their own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“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)