“Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am so coarse, the things the poets see Are obstinately invisible to me” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I must say my prayers today whether I feel devout or not; but that is only as I must learn my grammar… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was likely, then that this—-this stumbling walk on a wet night across a ploughed field-—meant death. Death—-the thing one had always… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is (according to one’s point of view) either a wonderful piece of luck or a wise provision of God’s, that poetry… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When the poets call the directions or 'rulings' of Jahweh 'true' they are expressing the assurance that these, and not those others,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There seem, in fact, to be only two views we can hold about awe. Either it is a mere twist in the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes though stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Light itself was your first love: you paint only as a means of telling about light... Ink and catgut and paint were… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
