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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

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Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

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Libraries are undoubtedly the most interesting buildings ever designed: temples of knowledge built on billions of words, guaranteed to last for centuries.

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America, why are your libraries full of tears?

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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

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Shimon Peres

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

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There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

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We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

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Mick Jagger

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

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William Shakespeare

Prospero: Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.

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Marguerite Yourcenar

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead.

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Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

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David Strathairn

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

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Your library is your paradise.

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Your library is your portrait.

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Mark Twain

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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Barbara Kingsolver

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

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Saul Bellow

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

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