A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Source: Memoirs, ch. 11, 1974; tr. 1977.
-- Pablo Neruda, (Jul 12 1904-1973), Chilean poet, diplomat, Marxist; He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and the Lenin Prize for Peace in 1953; wrote Residence on Earth-Nobel, 1971.