Alexander Smith Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

  Alexander Smith

  Library, Book Lover, Libraries And Librarians

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

• I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Army, Night

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

• In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Garden

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

• Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Library

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.222, tredition

• In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

  Alexander Smith

  Flower, Book, Past

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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