#reading

Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages, Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips. The heartthrobs of the prophets and the sages Beat through these bindings; and my quick hand slips Old books from dusty shelves, in eager seeking For truths the flaming tongues of the ancients tell; For the words of wisdom that they still are speaking As clearly as an echoing silver bell. Here is the melody that lies forever At the deep heart of living; here we keep The accurate recorded discs that never Can be quite silenced, though their makers sleep The still deep sleep, so long as a seeker finds The indelible imprint of their moving minds. ↗

— Grace Noll Crowell

#posterity #reading #age

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#ballplayer #bit #even #eyes #gave

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#books #read #reading #age

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine. ↗

— David Sedaris

#enjoy #i #just #lying #magazine

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. ↗

— John Zorn

#been #changing #doing #getting #i

WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#old-age #reading #age

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#books #re-reading #reading #age

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#reading #age

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun. ↗

— Kevin Smokler

#bibliophiles #books #fun #reader #reading

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#youth #age