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Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams Quotes: In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield
         

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


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



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