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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific.

You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

Man is what he reads.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he’s hardly ever mentioned.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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