Lessing thought no man could write a good tragedy till he was thirty. Here are two written by a man of twenty-eight.
[1] "Les Avertis" (in Le Trésor des Humbles), p. 53.
[2] Cf. also "L'Evolution du Mystère" (in Le Temple Enseveli) Chapters V., XXI., and XXII.
[3] See Chapter XXVIII. of L'Intelligence des Fleurs.
[4] In a letter inserted in the programme when Les Flaireurs was staged by Paul Fort at the Théâtre d'Art (after The Intruder had gone over the same boards). This statement of Maeterlinck's is a noble defence of his friend, and, as such, not to be trusted.
[5] But Death, in The Intruder, is understood to have made some noise while coming upstairs.
[6] Is. van Dijk, Maurice Maeterlinck, pp. 81-82.