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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars read more
In you are sent
The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;
In you soars up the Adam from the fall;
In you the Future as the Past is given--
Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--
Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,
Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
Only your friends steal your books
Only your friends steal your books
What is reading, but silent conversation.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
