Top 5 Louise Rosenblatt Quotes

#1. Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

Louise Rosenblatt

#2. Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

Louise Rosenblatt

#3. A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

Louise Rosenblatt

#4. Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

Louise Rosenblatt

#5. The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.

Louise Rosenblatt

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