The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth livi… - Maria Popova

Every voracious reader knows that there is no Dewey system for the Babel of the mind. You walk amid the labyrinthine stacks and ideas leap at you like dust bunnies drawn from the motes that cover a great many different books ready long ago.

Once a poem is made available to the public, the right of interpretation belongs to the reader,

Above all, Somerville possessed the defining mark of the great scientist and the great human being — the ability to hold one’s opinions with firm but unfisted fingers, remaining receptive to novel theories and willing to change one’s mind in light of new evidence.