Reading

 Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not.


This by Francis Bacon, in an essay "Of Studies," which came to me via a weekly email from Brain Pickings Weekly, to which you can subscribe by going to www.brainpickings.org. 
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Here, in this week's issue, is Book Spines Poetry:

Bursts, music, big questions: A working theory of love

What kind of poem could be made from the book spines in my last post?

The Girl I Left Behind, Agewise and Aged By Culture; 

The Harvard Psychedelic Club and Paper Garden, Mindfulness and the 12 Steps: 

Your Life as Story

Thank you for allowing me to confer with you through writing, thus I become a full, ready, and exact woman.