Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Meandering in the stacks . . .

Today is the birthday of Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (October 27/28, 1466/1469, Rotterdam – July 12, 1536, Basel), humanist scholar and philosopher.

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
- Desiderius Erasmus

"I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults."
- Desiderius Erasmus

"Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself."
- Desiderius Erasmus

"What is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?"
- Desiderius Erasmus

"I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger."
- Desiderius Erasmus

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."
- Desiderius Erasmus

"The desire to write grows with writing."
- Desiderius Erasmus

"Your library is your paradise."
- Desiderius Erasmus

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Today is the birthday of Dylan Marlais Thomas (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953), writer and poet.

"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
- Dylan Thomas

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
- Dylan Thomas

"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
- Dylan Thomas

"The function of posterity is to look after itself."
- Dylan Thomas

"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me."
- Dylan Thomas

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