Psychopathia librorum.... I surround myself with the printed word.

Psychopathia librorum…. I surround myself with the printed word. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Books
category

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Category:
Books

The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Books

The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang

Category:
Books

He fed his spirit with the bread of books. – Edwin Markham

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

Losing doesnt eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season. – Troy Aikman

Category:
Loss

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that youre born a sinner and you dont really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called Antichrist Superstar. – Marilyn Manson

Category:
Art

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. – Michael Fish

Category:
gardening

Intercalary: Inserted out of the common order to preserve the equation of time, as the twenty-ninth of February in a leap year is an intercalary day. – A Dictionary of the English Language by Robert Gordon Latham, founded on that of

Category:
Leap Year Day