“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”
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“O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.”
― Paradise Lost
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.”
― Paradise Lost
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."
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― De syllabis (Hypomnemata)
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."
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― De syllabis (Hypomnemata)
Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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