Book Canon

Famous quotes containing the words book and/or canon:

    “Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There is a Canon which confines
    A Rhymed Octosyllabic Curse
    If written in Iambic Verse
    To fifty lines.”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)