“The rat isthe mous-tacheinthetrache.the wrong-doerinthesoer.”
— J. Patrick Lewis
“I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.”
— J. Patrick Lewis
“LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens,UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement”
— J. Patrick Lewis
“A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies.”
— J. Patrick Lewis
“Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses”
— J. Patrick Lewis
“I won’t be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.”
— J. Patrick Lewis