“Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.