Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye.”
A Gossip on Romance http://pages.prodigy.net/rogers99/rls_gossip_on_romance.html, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).
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Extract trs. in Elliot and Dowson, III, p. 563. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 5
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Quote from the first and only! issue of the art-magazine 'Art Concret', Paris 1930
1926 – 1931
“We should read much, we should not read many books.”
Multum legendum esse, non multa.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 9, 15.
Letters, Book VII
Stanisław Lem book Solaris
Source: Solaris (1961), Ch. 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 204 [elipsis in original]
