Robert Wilson Lynd
Robert Wilson Lynd
Robert Wilson Lyndwas an Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth20 April 1879
CountryIreland
too-much likeable humans
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
inquisitive has-beens
The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.
sports golf world
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
inspirational life two
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
art writing men
The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.
men animal doe
Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.
lying sea ships
Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.
dream crazy mirrors
The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.
beautiful hands soldier
There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.
men perfect literature
Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.
children flower fall
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.
men hats streets
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.
love-is boys poet
A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
life dog animal
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.