Reading

... 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 --
Tis then we get the right good from a book.
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(from Aurora Leigh)