The goose quill put an end to talk. It abolished mystery; it gave architecture and towns; it brought roads and armies, bureaucracy. It was the basic metaphor with which the cycle of civilization began, the step from the dark into the light of the mind.
When did the wonderous mystic art arise, Of painting, speech, and speaking to the eyes? That we by tracing magic lines are taught, How to embody, and to color THOUGHT?