Source: House of Leaves
“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.”
“I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.”
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 136.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”
Source: Selected Letters
“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”
Variant: There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?
Apontamentos pessoais ["Autobiographical Notes"] (1910)
“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud.”
"The Divine Comedy" (1977)
Context: Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.
