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Sven Birkerts quotes: A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

Sven Birkerts quotes: Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

Sven Birkerts quotes: I read books to read myself.

I read books to read myself.

Sven Birkerts quotes: Where am I when I am involved in a book?

Where am I when I am involved in a book?

Sven Birkerts quotes: If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

Sven Birkerts quotes: A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

A poem is a construction of inner space.
Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

Sven Birkerts quotes: If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

Sven Birkerts quotes: The books that matter to me ... are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

The books that matter to me ... are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.