Quote

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

C. S. Lewis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Essayist
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Literary Scholar
Medievalist
Novelist
Belfast
Ireland
Clive Hamilton
N. W. Clerk
CS Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Would
Expression
Oysters
Philosophy
Pearl
History
Expresses
Art
Pearls
Earth
Poem
May
Claim
Self
Claims
Confessional
Good
However
Oyster

More quotes by C. S. Lewis

Image
Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!
C. S. Lewis
Image
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
C. S. Lewis
Image
And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?
C. S. Lewis
Image
We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).
C. S. Lewis
Image
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
Image
I am in love and out of it I will not go.
C. S. Lewis
Image
I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.
C. S. Lewis
Image
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?
C. S. Lewis
Image
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
C. S. Lewis
Image
The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.
C. S. Lewis
Image
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded
C. S. Lewis
Image
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis