Gracias a Vila-Matas (Bartleby y compañía) descubro un poema de Derek Walcott («Volcano») que expresa la máxima ambición leedora:
One could abandon writing
for the slow-burning signals
of the great, to be, instead,
their ideal reader, ruminative,
voracious, making the love of masterpieces
superior to attempting
to repeat or outdo them,
and be the greatest reader in the world.