Openings and Underlinings

I just read an article about someone's shelf of poetry books and journals. Rather than spin out a litany of titles he referred to where the book opened up-- almost on its own.

That sent me upstairs to my own shelves of poetry. Would any of my books open to a favorite or to a poem I returned to over and over?

How many books take up space-- rarely opened after the first reading?

I had underlined a line in Linda Pastan 's poem " Meditation" We grow in such haphazard ways.

Now that's a line I could use as an epigram.