...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

- Owen Barfield

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of c…

- Owen Barfield

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

- Owen Barfield

By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a na…

- Owen Barfield

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

- Owen Barfield

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in …

- Owen Barfield

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

- Owen Barfield

In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into the…

- Owen Barfield