AN INTERESTING & YET PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE ABOUT READING

"The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, must construct indeed the poem, argument, history - the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework."

~ Walt Whitman, (1819-1892), American poet, essayist & journalist;