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"...How young is too young to begin to discover the power and
beauty of words? Perhaps he will not understand, but there is a clash of
shields and a call of trumpets in those lines. One cannot begin too
young nor linger too long with learning. Who knows how much he will
remember? Who knows how deep the intellect? In some year yet unborn he
may hear those words again, or read them, and find in them something
hauntingly familiar, as of something long ago heard and only half
remembered...
"Men needed stories to lead them to create, to build, to
conquer, even to survive, and without them the human race would have
vanished long ago...
I do not know what else I shall leave my son, but if I have
left him a love of language, of literature, a taste for Homer, for the
poets, the people who have told our story--and by 'our' I mean the story
of mankind--then he will have legacy enough."
Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods
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You, not Them
