Who is Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Lewis was close friends with J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. Both men served on the English faculty at Oxford University and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to Lewis's ...
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Clive Staples Lewis Poems

• Song Of The Pilgrims
  O Dwellers at the back of the North Wind,
  What have we done to you? How have we sinned
  Wandering the Earth from Orkney unto Ind?
  ...
• The Satyr
  When the flowery hands of spring
  Forth their woodland riches fling,
  Through the meadows, through the valleys
  Goes the satyr carolling. ...
• Le Roi S-amuse
  Jove gazed
  On woven mazes
  Of patterned movement as the atoms whirled.
  His glance turned ...
• The Witch
  Trapped amid the woods with guile
  They've led her bound in fetters vile
  To death, a deadlier sorceress
  Than any born for earth's distress ...
• Our Daily Bread
  We need no barbarous words nor solemn spell
  To raise the unknown. It lies before our feet;
  There have been men who sank down into Hell
  In some suburban street, ...

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Clive Staples Lewis Quotes

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
• Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
• The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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