1st Baron Astley of Reading

Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or reading:

    “My lusts they do me leave,
    My fancies all be fled,
    And tract of time begins to weave
    Grey hairs upon my head.”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
    —Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)