Archive for July 29th, 2008
Quotes About Books III
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits,
– so much help
By so much reading. it is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth –
‘T is then we get the right good from a book.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Books, not which […]
