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

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

Jocelyn Gibb quotes: What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.

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

Jocelyn Gibb quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jocelyn Gibb quotes: [Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very close friends.

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