"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." — Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet, born 1940
"The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention." — Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet, born 1940
"Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written." — Neville Brody, English typographer, born 1957
"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave." — Emily Bronte, English author, born 1818
"It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn." — Emily Bronte, English author, born 1818
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes." — Mel Brooks, American comedian, born 1926