THE DONKEY
G.K. ChestertonWhen fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born;With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
I keep my secret still.Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.
On every bookstall, in every magazine, you may find works telling people how to succeed.
They are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.
G.K. Chesterton in All Things Considered (via gkchestertonquote)
So great.
You should not look a gift universe in the mouth.
Youth will quite naturally accept things that are old, believing them to be new.
“That which is large enough for the rich to covet, is large enough for the poor to defend.”
G.K. Chesterton in Napoleon of Notting Hill
Photo: Cover art for Japanese edition by Hayao Miyazaki.
WAIT. WAIT.
G.K. CHESTERTON + MIYAZAKI!?
♥♥♥!!!!!
Must-reblog.
Self-caricature of G. K. Chesterton as a boy (and as a skinny person).
Wow - I’ve never seen this before. Delightful.
The materialism of things is on the face of things: it does not require any science to find it out. A man who has lived and loved falls down dead and the worms eat him. That is Materialism, if you like. That is Atheism, if you like. If mankind has believed in spite of that, it can believe in spite of anything. But why our human lot is made any more hopeless because we know the names of the worms who eat him, or the names of all the parts of him that they eat, is to a thoughtful mind somewhat difficult to discover.
