Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
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A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
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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.
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Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
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The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.
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It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
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A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
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This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
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We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.