A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads.