In my Commonplace...

1/6/2015

"The whole difference between a construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child. Before even the details or main features of the book; the author enjoys it and lives in it with a kind of prophetic rapture." G.K. Chesterton

3 Comments

BONNIE B Buckingham

1/9/2015 12:10:50 pm

from his book on Dickens.. .and a wonderful quote!

Laurie

1/9/2015 11:24:48 pm

You are amazing! You could win on a game show. :) This was an essay in his collection of essays, In Defense of Sanity. " The Pickwick Papers." My students read Pickwick last year and this essay this year. They felt the order should have been reversed...it would have made them want to read Pickwick more. Yay, Chesterton!

BONNIE B Buckingham

1/14/2015 11:25:13 am

I love reading your quotes. THANK you for posting words that grip and strike and make me want to read more!

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- Alfred Whitehead

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Laurie

"Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it."
--Charlotte Mason

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