“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.” IfsMenWritingFirstsBookLastsHeavenAnimalLaughingFireStalkingPrometheus Book:Enjoyment of Literature Source: Enjoyment of Literature
“"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.” ArtMadeBookCultureContactSubtleCrafty Author:John Cowper Powys
“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.” PeopleMeanDoeBookFormCertainImaginationPersonalityReaderTerribleOrdinaryChaosInsightContactClassicVisibleSuperficialGlancesGrandeurOutlinesLuminousOrdinary LifeGreat BookDostoyevsky Author:John Cowper Powys
