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
country league contentment
The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.
games men
It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
human
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
beautiful art character
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.
keys light moments
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.
character bird body
Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.
men people police
Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
stars men world
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.
praise expenses customs
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
sports silly games
It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.
romance littles riches
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.
women world may
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
effort strive impart
We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.
weed flower men
On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.