Top 10 Sven Birkerts Quotes

#1. If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

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#2. A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

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#3. A poem is a construction of inner space.
Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

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#4. Where am I when I am involved in a book?

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#5. Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves.

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#6. To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in life].

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#7. If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

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#8. Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

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#9. I read books to read myself.

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#10. The books that matter to me ... are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

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