“Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.”

“In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.”

“As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.”

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”

“Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.)”

“Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?""I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.”

“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires.”