Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

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

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.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.

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