Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

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.

Money is a kind of poetry.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

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.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

The imagination is man's power over nature.