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Book cover for What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World – Luminous Literary Reflections on Photography and American Writers

What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World – Luminous Literary Reflections on Photography and American Writers by Robert Hass

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And that for me, the content of poetry, or at least what drew me to poetry—the way in which I could say to myself it was spiritual—had to do with negation, with some version of saying no to the plausibly constructed world, and of being ...more

Summers’s Quotes

“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.”
― Cormac McCarthy

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“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read…What I began by reading I must finish by acting.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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