Anne Perry
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Anne Perry - has the following books at our site "I think he’s (G.K. Chesterton) brilliant in his use of the language, but where I loved him really has to do with his love of life, his love of human beings. He wrote one poem-it’s called “Gold Leaves.” I can’t quote the whole thing to you because Chesterton is one I haven’t bothered to commit to memory-because that’s the one book I cart around with me-but he was saying that when he was young he sought the golden flower in wood or wold, but then when he comes to the autumn of life, all the trees are gold. And he speaks: “But now a great thing in the street/Seems any human nod,/Where in a strange democracy/The million masks of God.” And he has such a love, an appetite, a gusto and joy for life that I can’t help loving him for that.I think he’s (G.K. Chesterton) brilliant in his use of the language, but where I loved him really has to do with his love of life, his love of human beings. He wrote one poem-it’s called “Gold Leaves.” I can’t quote the whole thing to you because Chesterton is one I haven’t bothered to commit to memory-because that’s the one book I cart around with me-but he was saying that when he was young he sought the golden flower in wood or wold, but then when he comes to the autumn of life, all the trees are gold. And he speaks: “But now a great thing in the street/Seems any human nod,/Where in a strange democracy/The million masks of God.” And he has such a love, an appetite, a gusto and joy for life that I can’t help loving him for that." |