Why Read?

The following are two of my favorite quotes on what happens when you read a book that really rattles your cage, or take in a poem that says it in a way that only your emotions can grasp. I hope you can relate to these.

"Books have swept me away, one after the other, this way and that; I made endless vows according to their lights, for I believed them." Annie Dillard

"The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book." Wallace Stevens

Yes, that's me in the pic!