“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”
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I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
