“Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.” WorldLooksSaidDifferentNovelReaderLettersLook UpComplimentFinestDictionaryDifferent WorldsSingle WordLexicon Author:Randall Jarrell
“The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.” ThinkingLooksHas BeensReadingWrittenReaderLook UpThoughtfulThinker Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens