"I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world." — Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet, born 1956
"I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I had something of a fetish for what he called Haute Couture Vulgarity." — Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet, born 1956
"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
"In 2024, 77 million American voters looked at Trump and saw nothing morally disqualifying about the man." — David Brooks, NY Times Columnist, born 1961
"We don’t become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. We don’t become what we know. Education is a process of love formation. When you go to a school, it should offer you new things to love." — David Brooks, NY Times Columnist, born 1961
"We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom. That’s because wisdom isn’t a body of information. It’s the moral quality of knowing what you don’t know and figuring out a way to handle your ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation." — David Brooks, NY Times Columnist, born 1961