December 2011
46 posts
“Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning,...”
– Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet (via uponswallows)
“I do think it’s a very uneven exchange of Christmas presents. You’ll...”
– Helene Hanff (Christmas 1952. Helene has sent her friends at 84 a parcel of hard-to-find groceries, and her friends at 84 have sent her a copy of the Book-Lovers’ Anthology, “all gold-embossed leather and gold-tipped pages, easily the most beautiful book I own….” Here is...
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
– Charles Dickens (via deadwriters)
“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task...”
– -Samuel Johnson
I completely agree.
(via moviesandmusicandbooksohmy)
