C. S. Lewis Quote

Only science can tell you where and when you are likely to meet an elm: only poetry can tell you what meeting an elm is like.


The Personal Heresy: A Controversy, Chapter V (p. 110), Oxford University Press, Inc. 1939


Only science can tell you where and when you are likely to meet an elm: only poetry can tell you what meeting an elm is like.

Only science can tell you where and when you are likely to meet an elm: only poetry can tell you what meeting an elm is like.

Only science can tell you where and when you are likely to meet an elm: only poetry can tell you what meeting an elm is like.

Only science can tell you where and when you are likely to meet an elm: only poetry can tell you what meeting an elm is like.