Charles Williams Quotes
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

-Charles Williams
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The image of a wood has appeared often enough in English verse. It has indeed appeared so often that it has gathered a good deal of verse into itself; so that it has become a great forest where, with long leagues of changing green between them, strange episodes of poetry have taken pl . . . Read more

-Charles Williams
Why was this bloody world created?""As a sewer for the stars," a voice in front of him said. "Alternatively to know God and to glorify Him forever."" [...] The two answers are not, of course, necessarily alternative.

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It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process an . . . Read more

-Charles Williams
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

-Charles Williams
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How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

-Charles Williams
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Nothing was certain, but everything was safe - that was part of the mystery of Love.

-Charles Williams
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The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Para . . . Read more

-Charles Williams