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Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?

What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.

Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.

He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era

life-giving generosity was another depth in Lewis's nature that was part of his greatness

It delighted him that he could find no use of the word modern in Shakespeare that did not carry its load of contempt.

His tastes were essentially for what had magnitude and a suggestion of myth: the heroic and the romantic never failed to excite his imagination

No one knew better than he how an understanding of poetry depends on an understanding of the poet's universe.

Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity.

God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence; [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.

[Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very close friends.