“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“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“I won't be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.”
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, The Last Resort“LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens,UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement”
J. Patrick Lewis, Please Bury Me in the Library“Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses”
J. Patrick Lewis, Please Bury Me in the Library“The rat isthe mous-tacheinthetrache.the wrong-doerinthesoer.”
J. Patrick Lewis, World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of