Myfanwy Piper - Play

Famous quotes containing the word play:

“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery....Child’s play is the infantile form of the human ability to deal with experience by creating model situations and to master reality by experiment and planning.”
—Erik H. Erikson (20th century)

“The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Come play with me;
Why should you run
Through the shaking tree
As though I’d a gun
To strike you dead?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)