“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)”

“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.”

“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. ”

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”

“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils which never arrived - Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”