J. C. Read Quotes

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

The system of plunder derives much of its support from individuals who do not subscribe to socialism but who say, 'We're paying for it, so we might as well get our share'

No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.

Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.

All in their lifetime carve their own soul's statue.

Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowly alpine river flowed And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind.

Nothing, ' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

You are unshakable, the Lord is your rock, and redeemer, when the words of your mouth and the meditation of your heart are pleasing before Him. Psalm 9:14

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.

I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.

God wants you to always call Him not because you need Him but because you love Him. Matthew 22:37

Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

Those who live by God's law will walk through the rough roads of life shielded by God's love and faithfulness. Psalm 25:10.

When you invite Jesus Christ into your life and embrace his command, Satan receives an eviction notice. Romans 10:9

Everything that is wrong with this sinful world, is rooted in the selfishness of man. Rom. 8:5

If you believe that your needs were met because you prayed, then you make God the parent who reacts only when the baby cries. Matthew 6:25-34.

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.

We are all touched by music. Music connects us.

Music connects us to freedom

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad.And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

Associate with the noblest people you can find

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Having a nice library doesn’t make you smart. Don’t buy books and stack them up in your library

Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your body.

Hope is an investment that never fails the investor

I'm not courting death

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it

We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.

...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.