“Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand.Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland.”

“The Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XII Want the change. Be inspired by the flamewhere everything shines as it disappears.The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so muchas the curve of the body as it turns away.”

“You are not too old and it is not too lateto dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.”

“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”

“Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad.”

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”