J. Patrick Lewis Quotes

I won't be sad too often,
If they bury me in the library
With bookworms in my coffin.

Please bury me in the library
With a dozen long-stemmed proses

A great book is a homing device
For navigating paradise.

A good book somehow makes you care
About the comfort of a chair.

A bad book owes to many trees
A forest of apologies.

Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.