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.
Elizabeth B. Browning.
From “Aurora Leigh.”