The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
Poetry is the scholar's art.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.
If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.
I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
I am what is around me.
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
Anything is beautiful if you say it is.
The imperfect is our paradise.
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.
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