Would that it were so in the present
case! All I can say is that I know very few people who live their
lives on these lines, and that most of the people I know find
inspiration anywhere but in the homely stuff of life. Of course
there are a good many people who take life stolidly enough, and do
not desire inspiration at all; but I do not mean that sort of life
in the least. I mean that it ought to be possible and delightful
for people to live lives full of activity and perception and
kindliness and joy, on very simple lines indeed; to take up their
work day by day with an agreeable sense of putting out their
powers, to find in the pageant of nature an infinite refreshment,
and to let art and poetry lift them up into a world of hopes and
dreams and memories; and thus life may become a meal to be eaten
with appetite, with a wholesome appreciation of its pleasant
savours, rather than a meal eaten in satiety or greediness, with a
peevish repining that it is not more elaborate and delicate.
I do not claim to live my own life on these lines.
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