The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Greece is the most magical place on Earth.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
The guilt of newborns is immense.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.