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

Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

The authors disclose that in less than a century the word "tension" grew from signifying a literal electric charge to a metaphor for emotional stress between two people. Writes Owen Barfield, "The scientists who discovered the forces of electricity actually made it possible for the human beings who came after them to have a slightly different idea, a slightly fuller consciousness of their relationship with one another.

One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength.

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee