A Boy In Love Is Not Mainly

With Wordsworth, Indeed, The Light Of Revelation Did Not Fall Upon Human Beings So Unbrokenly As Upon The Face Of The Earth. He Knew The Birds Of The Countryside Better Than The Old Men, And The Flowers Far Better Than The Children.

It Is Doubtful If Even Experience Of Riches And Success Is As Intense Among Those Who Have Experienced Nothing Else As Among Those Who Have Also Experienced Poverty And Failure. There Is Little Romance In Wealth To Those Who Have Been Born Wealthy And Whose Families Have Been Wealthy For Generations.

We Cannot Get Happiness By Striving After It, And Yet With An Effort We Can Impart It.

W. B. Yeats Has Created, If Not A New World, A New Star. He Is Not A Reporter Of Life As It Is, To The Extent That Shakespeare Or Browning Is. One Is Not Quite Certain That His Kingdom Is Of The Green Earth. He Is Like A Man Who Has Seen The Earth Not Directly But In A Crystal.

Were I A Philosopher, I Should Write A Philosophy Of Toys, Showing That Nothing Else In Life Need To Be Taken Seriously, And That Christmas Day In The Company Of Children Is One Of The Few Occasions On Which Men Become Entirely Alive.