It is not so much  
Of what you see. 
When you read  
The words. 
 
But what is  
Revealed unto you. 
Beyond the process  
Of the thought. 
 
For what you read  
Is from the mind. 
But the revelation  
Is in the imagination.
Cecelia Weir
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-read/