Into the Mystic Quotes

“The child is father to the man” is a Romantic riddle that turns worldly hierarchy on its head. It means that the child is in some sense the superior of the man; the child is wiser than the man. Ironically, the eventual broad acceptance of this truth did not so much liberate the Victorian bourgeois as it haunted them and gave them a bad conscience. They sensed that the poets were right.”
― Christopher Hill, Into the Mystic: The Visionary and Ecstatic Roots of 1960s Rock and Roll