“Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.” IfsBookReadingKindnessWisePagesWelcomeProseMaryVisitingSwansVery Wise Author:Jessye Norman
“It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.” HumansLooksBookStoriesSpeakGrowsPoorWiseReaderPagesLibraryCornersDinnerBentEloquenceWhiskeyGood StoryLivelyCirculationSprungLibrary BooksMustardDabs Book:Salem's Lot Source: Salem's Lot
“Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.” IfsHas BeensMadeRomanceLiteratureSidesWiseAmountPagesStandingAccountsWineCreditFoolishSillyFirmComparisonLitAccumulationCommonplaceColumnsLurkingSilly ThingsCounsellorsDebit Author:Duff Cooper
“There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.” MenAbleEasySimpleWiseAchieveDisciplinePagesUglyDullRealisingCaptureVulgarTransparentTypographyOstentation Author:Beatrice Warde
“For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf” IfsMaySaidLightEyeLeftWhiteBreakCasesPathSawsWiseChangedBrokenPagesMovedRingsColourMakersWovenRobesHueBewilderedWhite LightSaruman Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the great of the earth, counsel with the wise of all time, look into the unlived days with prophets...To become acquainted with real nobility as it walks the pages of history and science and literature is to strengthen character and develop life in its finer meanings.” LooksBookRealCharacterEarthLiteratureWalksCompanyWorryWisePagesAll TimeProphetFriendlyNobilityRevealingInvigorating Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!” KnowsWellsMeanLongBookSoulAgeTurnsFoundVoiceDarkFireWiseWindPagesCrossesBlowMy SoulEveningDumbPleasantProseAutumnVersesNovemberHueShutters Author:Robert Browning