vielliesse

Updated: May 8, 2025

To every one, dull and vivid, social and solitary, age brings its changes. We may understand better, but the vividness is less, the emotions are tamer. They do not fully respond, as the bell in the deserted house only half tinkles to our pulling. Si jeunesse savait, Si vielliesse pouvait. But to be able comes before to know. We must react to experiences before it is worth while to comprehend them.

Henry Seidel Canby - Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism