If You Read Quickly To Get Through

Hard Work Makes Easy Reading Or, At Least, Easier Reading.

If You Read Quickly To Get Through A Poem To What It Means, You Have Missed The Body Of The Poem.

If You Learn One Thing From Having Lived Through Decades Of Changing Views, It Is That All Predictions Are Necessarily False.

Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury. It Expands You In Every Way. It Illuminates What You’re Doing. It Shows You Possibilities You Haven’t Thought Of. It Enables You To Live The Lives Of Other People Than Yourself. It Broadens You, It Makes You More Human. It Makes Life Enjoyable.

The Survival Of Artistic Modes In Which We Recognize Ourselves, Identify Ourselves And Place Ourselves Will Survive As Long As Humanity Survives.