Museum Reading Room

Famous quotes containing the words museum, reading and/or room:

    “I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
    rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
    ...
    I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
    a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
    People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “A reading machine, always wound up and going,
    He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)