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

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

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

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

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights

Maybe the definition of a real father is someone who accepts their child for who they are, despite their faults or how far they've strayed from the path of the person you hoped they'd become.

You can't look stupid if you're having fun.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.

Very specifically, Nickelodeon is aimed at eight- and nine-year-olds.

A Mario Brother never says 'can't', Luigi!

I don't know if that comes in a number, I don't know if that comes in a plaque, I don't know what it is. If I can keep me and the crew around me happy, stable, and out of jail, then we good.

Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.