If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.
Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.