#reading

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#proofreading #poem

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#reading #guilt

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#reflection

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#calvino #if #italo #night #on

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#winter #winter

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#reading #blessings

There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#poetry #oppression

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#reading #writing #meditation

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. ↗

— Holbrook Jackson

#procrastination #reading #procrastination

If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#reading #scripture #faith