Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

Things are worse. The gap's getting wider -- between those who have and those who do not.

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.