Posts tagged quote
Posts tagged quote
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
The books had been buried, so I hid this time behind a group of trees, I imagined their roots wrapped around books, pulling nourishment from the pages, I imagined rings of letters in their trunks.
(Source: icanhassilvia, via libraryland)
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little….
Life is, as I’ve said since I was 10, awfully interesting—if anything, quicker, keener at 44 than 24—more desperate I suppose, as the river shoots to Niagara—my new vision of death; active, positive, like all the rest, exciting; & of great importance—as an experience.
‘The one experience I shall never describe,’ I said to Vita yesterday.
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
