It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
Realism is a corruption of reality.
Next to love is the desire for love.
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.
Imagination is the will of things. . . .
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
The imagination is man's power over nature.
Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
I am what is around me.
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