Quotes by Michael Dirda

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. Shes always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isnt tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.