Bookish Matters

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

—Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Thursday, January 27, 2011

mirror

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "Defence of Poetry"
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