antigonick:

katherinebarlow:

terpsikeraunos:

the only people who understand literature are those who literally eat books. sorry. meaning does not exist until you devour it.

“When Anne Carson was a child she read a book called Lives of the Saints and loved it so much that she tried to eat the pages. It sounds like an apocryphal story, but yes, she says, ‘I did do that.’” — A Life in Writing