Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
It is the belief and not the god that counts.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.
I was the world in which I walked.
Next to love is the desire for love.
It is never the thing but the version of the thing.
I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
Disillusion is the last illusion.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.
It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.
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