- Reading is not a passive activity. When writing a poem a poet must use his imagination but also while reading a poem the reader must also use the same skill of imagination. - Reading is like discovering something albeit with some help from the author. ---- Reading and listening are thought of as receiving communication from someone who is actively engaged in giving or sending it. The mistake here is to suppose that receiving communication is like receiving a blow or a legacy or a judgment from the court. On the contrary, the reader or listener is much more like the catcher in a game of baseball - Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren in [[How to Read a Book]]