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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
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From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.
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Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.
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Graceful, ingenious, illuminative reading.
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Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.
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He found shelter among books, which insult not, and studies that ask no questions of a youth’s finances.
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He is a worthy gentleman, exceedingly well read and profited in strange concealments.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
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His classical reading is great: he can quote Horace, Juvenal, Ovid, and Martial by rote. He has read Metaphysics * * * Spinoza and Kant; And Theology too; I nave heard him descant Upon Basil and Jerome. Antiquities, art, He is fond of. He knows the old masters by heart, And his taste is refined.
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How well he is read, to reason against reading!
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it: we must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and soul.
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I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I don’t read my own reviews and I haven’t for probably 15 years. I read other people’s reviews, though.
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I found the absolute thrill of translating ancient poetic text into totally visceral, tangible and even relevant, immediate and urgent language… I was thrilled by Shakespeare. It surprised me, my profound delight in deciphering Shakespeare and making it completely flesh-and-blood.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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