Echoes of Eden Quotes

“But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
― Jerram Barrs, Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts

“an author should never conceive of himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom that did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.”
― Jerram Barrs, Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts