But the works of authentic genius from past ages remain, and are available to us. Their contemplation is the ever-flowing source of an inspiration which may legitimately guide us. For this inspiration, if we know how to receive it, tends---as Plato said---to make us grow wings to overcome gravity.
Morality and Literature
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (ed. Richard Rees), `Some Thoughts on the Love of God', 1940-42
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