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He did not quite belong to the grown-up world and so he told me everything he believed."Ī poem called "Near and Far," from "Windy Morning" (Harcourt, 1953) records Harry Behn's earliest memory.Stuck in someone else's frames? break free! "One of the best teachers I had was an old gardener who liked children because they gave him a chance to sit in his wheelbarrow and light his pipe. If only every puzzled adult could take time now and then to wander along with some loved child, to exult or dream "¦" "If only the old can find serenity to listen and still learn. This is perhaps the most charming trauma on record." "I have a friend who at 2 was tossed out of an upstairs window of a burning house into a garden pool, and all she remembers of her shocking experience is the lovely smell of water lilies. Sometimes it seemed they hardly looked at anything except the newspaper and the dirt on my face." Even when they would say, How nice! I knew they hadn't seen what I had seen. "Like all adults, my parents were great glancers. Tolkien and Walter de la Mare, who "of all the poets loved by children has the most delicate ear, the greatest power of evoking simply the most beautiful magic." He does not care for "Alice in Wonderland." "It's too mathematical and intellectual." Here, covering a variety of subjects, are a few more conversational asides: Like everyone else, Behn has his own favorites among writers. I thought I would write mild things for people who appreciate mildness." In 1947 he and his wife visited friends in Greenwich and decided to settle here. And I love children, more than I do most grown-ups. "I wrote two plays which were optioned and dropped.