We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits, — so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth —
'T is then we get the right good from a book.


Aurora Leigh (1857)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits, — so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously...

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits, — so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously...

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits, — so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously...

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits, — so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously...