desert trek

An arid read: Page after page yielding few quotable lines.

be quoted or die

Literary fame is measured by being oft-quoted.

admired if not loved

Alexander Pope is not a poet one loves. But Pope lives on by quotable verse that sings and stings.

underlined

Make each line quotable.

words equal to life

A passage achieves quotation when there’s an equation between its words and experience.

prickly

A text prickly with quotable passages.