Michel de Certeau states, “The current industrial mass production of visual imagery tends to alienate vision from emotional involvement and identification and turns imagery into a mesmerizing flow without focus or participation” (Pallasmaa). Based upon a critique of the expedient exchange of information in our modern culture, this thesis examines how creative language and the act of reading itself might open an interpretive dimension for new pathways that are more and more lost in our current cultural milieu. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s story La Ligeia, which follows a grieving lover through the death and reemergence of his first true love, this rare books library examines how poetic images that emerge from Poe’s story might be transformed into the time and space of architecture. Fragments and spaces, both written and built, aim to conjure unique images within the visitor as an enduring testament to the importance of language itself.