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Quotes About Books III

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

We 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 […]

Quotes About Books II

Monday, July 28th, 2008

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room
piled high with cases in my father’s name;
Piled high, packed large, –where, creeping in and out
among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse
[…]

Self-Protrait

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM), House of Prayer and Formation,no.49, Holland Road.

SELF-PORTRAIT
By David Whyte
It doesn’t interest me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel
abandoned.
If you know despair or see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need
to […]