“I, that used to figure ParadiseIn the guise of a library”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.- Blindness”

“Paradise will be a kind of library”

“Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.”

“The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.”

“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.”