“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.”

— Clive Staples Lewis, book The Great Divorce

Source: The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 9

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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