95 Quotes by Philip Zaleski

Facts seemed to run around and rattle in his head like dried peas, and then suddenly to form a convincing pattern.

Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.

Everyone and everything needed to be raised to its highest level – the teacher must become a mage, the husband a knight errant, the labor a hero in a sacred drama – intensified, rarefied, baptized in the turbulent waters of restlessness, curiosity, and ardor.

Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during "the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing," and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.