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Seattle Central Public Library, Seattle, Washington

(Reblogged from awritershigh)
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.
George Dryer

(Source: whynotread)

(Reblogged from wordpainting)
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
No … eight days a week.
Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

(Source: literatureismyutopia)

(Reblogged from literatureismyutopia)
(Reblogged from poplibrary)
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one’s devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins, ALA Bulletin (1954)
A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books… A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your questions answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people — people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

26 years ago today, the world lost E. B. White – remember him with his poetic letter to children on the love of libraries.

(Reblogged from curiositycounts)