Owen Barfield Quotes

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

The poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

Library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books ...

True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment,

We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.