Reading Genesis

Famous quotes containing the words reading and/or genesis:

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“Nature centres into balls,
And her proud ephemerals,
Fast to surface and outside,
Scan the profile of the sphere;
Knew they what that signified,
A new genesis were here.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)