Excerpt from The Way of Poetry: An Anthology for Younger Readers Nothing in the world gives people so much real pleas ure as making things. And have you ever tried to think exactly what making a thing means? It does n't mean making something out of nothing in a magical way, but it means taking a thing, or a num ber of things that are already in existence, and so arranging them, that in addition to the things that have been used, an entirely new thing comes into being. For instance, a man may take thousands Of bricks, each of which is a separate thing that has already been made, and out of them make an entirely new thing, a house. And in building a house the man is happy for two reasons because he is making a use ful thing, a place Where he or some one else can live, and also because he is able to take a lot of bricks that have been lying in heaps, that do not seem to mean anything, and arrange them so that they become a house, which means a great deal. And there is noth ing which gives us so much satisfaction as this ability to make disorder into order and give a useful mean ing to things that until we have arranged them just as the man arranges his bricks into a house seemed to have no use or meaning at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.