Skape
Hele forskjellen mellom det å konstruere og det å skape er nettopp dette: Det som er konstruert, kan bare bli elsket etterpå, mens det som er skapt, blir elsket allerede før det finnes.
Kilde:
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911), kap.3 - Pickwick Papers.
Engelsk:
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Del av:
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child.
Mer om:
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Nasjonalitet: engelsk
Tittel: journalist
Levde: 1874 - 1936