Of course she had read this work many times before, but there were certain parts to which she passionately returned: so cool, so elegant, so beautiful, so terrible. As she read tears began to stream down her face.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Today we will read love poetry. You shall read aloud to me and we will weep together.

He did not read. This continued to amaze Ludens who could not imagine existence without reading.

Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe, and they believe, because believing is easier than disbelieving, and because anything which is written down is likely to be 'true in a way'.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.