Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. – John Ruskin
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. – John Ruskin
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. – John Ruskin
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. – John Ruskin
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)