Reading...

Supporting and guiding what we call reading is the act of gathering, gathering up what has been written and what the text has to say. Reading gathers what has already laid claim to our innermost self without our knowing it, whether we live up to, or betray, that essential core. But without true reading, reading proper, we cannot see what is peering at us nor look at what appears and shines.

[My own colloquial English version of MH's "Was heißt Lesen?" from 1954, included in GA Bd.13]