Wednesday, June 1, 2011

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges, "Poema de los Dones"


*I want to go to there*



E.B. WHITE IN A LETTER TO THE CHILDREN OF TROY, MICHIGAN

a library is many things. it’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. it’s a place to go if you want to sit and think. 
but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books… books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people — people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book