“It is beautiful to see out of what scant allowance of that which we call well-being, may be evolved wisdom and joy, poetry and religion.”

Observing that material scarcity need not prevent richness of spirit and imagination · Spanish Highways and Byways

• Joy
• Poetry
• Wisdom

“Where the narrative is highly colored by emotion, the ballad merges into the lyric. It is difficult here to draw the line of distinction.”

Recognising how literary forms naturally overlap when narrative becomes intensely emotional · Introduction to Ballad Book

• Criticism
• Emotion
• Poetry

“There is no security on this whirring planet where pain is pain, and loss is loss, but where, for our deepest of consolation, though it involves our keenest of grief, love is always love.”

Finding enduring consolation in love despite the certainty of suffering and loss · Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road

• Consolation
• Grief
• Love