That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. - Christopher Morley

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve
that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.