• In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

    Edgar Allan Poe: In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
    Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1850). “The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Autorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with Marginalia, Suggestions, and Essays”, p.540

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