Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

Include the knower in the known.

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

We invent mind-space inside our own heads as well as the heads of others ... we assume these 'spaces' without question. They are a part of what it is to be conscious. Moreover, things that in the physical-behavioural world that do not have a spatial quality are made to have such in consciousness. Otherwise we cannot be conscious of them.