"Where My Books Go"

All the words that I gather,
And all the words that I write,
Must spread out their wings untiring,
And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
Storm darkened or starry bright.

—W. B. Yeats



"Each friendship and love is the ultimate journey
where the soul is born and grows. The journey
is the drama of the heart's voyage into the tide
of possibilities which open before it. Indeed,
a book is a path of words which takes the heart
in new directions."

—John O'Donohue



that his own imagination and insight have not already discovered

—Virginia Woolf



"If you can get the right book at the right time
you taste joys—not only bodily, physical,
but spiritual also, which pass one
out above and beyond one's miserable self,
as it were through a huge air,
following the light of another man's thought.
And you can never be quite the old self again."

—T. E. Lawrence



who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image;
but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself."

—John Milton


"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."



"A book reads the better which is our own,
and has been so long known to us,
that we know the topography of its blots,
and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it
to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."

—Charles Lamb



"No man can be called friendless
who has God and the companionship of good books."

—Elizabeth Barrett Browning



"Buying books would be a good thing
if one could also buy the time to read them in:
but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken
for the appropriation of their contents."

—Arthur Schopenhauer



"A book, too, can be a star,
a living fire to lighten the darkness,
leading out into the expanding universe."

—Madeleine L'Engle


read only a page."

—St. Augustine



"Life being very short, and the quiet hours few,

—John Ruskin



"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;
they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors,
and the most patient of teachers."

—Charles W. Eliot



"In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time,
the articulate audible voice of the Past,
when the body and the material substance of it
has altogether vanished like a dream."

—Thomas Carlyle



"The love of learning,
the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books."

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



the very heart and core of ages past.
The reason why men lived, and worked, and died,
the essence and quintessence of their lives."

—Amy Lowell


"There is more treasure in books
than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island,
and best of all, you can enjoy these riches
every day of your life."

—Walt Disney




          and more bo
oks upon books than upon all other subjects;
          we do nothing but comment upon one another."


Kathleen Jessie Raine

   "I've read all the books,
   but one only remains sacred:
   this volume of wonders,
   open always before my eyes."

   —Kathleen Raine

"The profit of books
is according to the sensibility of the reader;
the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine,
until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Youth is a time when we find
the books we give up but do not get over."

—Lionel Trilling




—Henry David Thoreau



"There is something about the book
which fits the eye, the hand, and the mind:
it has achieved a perfect form,
which cannot be transcended."

—Jacques Barzun



"A truly great book should be read in youth,
again in maturity and once more in old age,
as a fine binding should be seen by morning light,
at noon and by moonlight."

—Robertson Davies




"In the best books, great men talk to us,
God be thanked for books.
They are the voices of the distant and the dead,
and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

—William Ellery Channing

       "A picture shows me at a glance
       —Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev


—George Steiner



"Every creature is full of God,
and is a book about God."

—Meister Eckehart



"In the case of good books,
but rather how many can get through to you."

—Mortimer J. Adler


"The failure to read good books both enfeebles
the vision and stengthens our most fatal tendency—

—Allan Bloom



"We all know that books burn—yet we have
the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire.
People die, but books never die.
No man and no force can abolish memory. . . .
In this war, we know, books are weapons."

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt


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"It will be the best-written books
which are passed on to posterity. . . .
Writing well also means thinking well,
feeling well, and behaving well."

—Comte George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon


"Books are the carriers of civilization.
Without books, history is silent,
literature dumb, science crippled,
thought and speculation at a standstill."

—Barbara Tuchman


but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts."

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



"All good books have one thing in common—
they are truer than if they had really happened."

—Ernest Hemingway


"You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks
like ladders to sniff books like perfumes
and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
20,000 days. And out of that love,

remake a world."

—Ray Bradbury



"How deluded we sometimes are by the clear
notions we get out of books. They make us think
that we really understand things of which we
have no practical knowledge at all."

—Thomas Merton



"In that abyss, I beheld how love held bound
Into one volume all the leaves whose flight
Is scattered through the universe around . . .
For everything the will has ever sought
Is gathered there, and there is every quest
Made perfect, which apart from it falls short."




"And there are also many other things which Jesus did,
the which, if they should be written every one,
I suppose that even the world itself
could not contain the books that should be written."

—St. John the Apostle


"When you re-read a classic,
you see more in you than there was before."

—Clifton Fadiman

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          and so made companionship with what there was around me—
          sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self;

          —Joshua Slocum

"We need the books that effect us like a disaster,
that grieve us deeply,
like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,
like being banished into forests far from everyone. . . .

—Franz Kafka



"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life."

—Mark Twain


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