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

Philip Zaleski
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a...
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a...
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a...
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a...
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The idea that a society must have a uses for the written word.

Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives Of The Inklings: J.r.r. Tolkien, C.s. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

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