“And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other.” CultureLiteratureUnderstandingKnowingComparing Author:Richard Mitchell
“Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don't do the other simply because you do the one.” ReadingUnderstandingComprehension Book:The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian Source: The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian
“A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.” IfsWayHeartRunningUnderstandingLinesClearMeditationHabitMouthsFoolishUnclear Author:Richard Mitchell
