Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. |
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. |
The point of vision and desire are the same. |
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. |
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. |
The imagination is man's power over nature. |
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. |
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. |
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. |
Money is a kind of poetry. |
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. |
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. |
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. |
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. |
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. |
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. |
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. |
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. |
The poet is the priest of the invisible. |
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. |