

“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ”
― The Waves
― The Waves

“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
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“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
― Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
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