“ Don't be afraid of poetry. ”
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
Reading to small children is a specialty.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.