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" 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. "

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" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "

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

" The point of vision and desire are the same. "

" The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. "

" As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. "

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" 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. "

" The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. "

" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "

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

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" How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. "

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Furniture

" The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. "

" A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. "

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" The fire burns as the novel taught it how. "

" The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. "

" 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. "

" Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. "

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Nothing

Literature

" Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. "

" One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. "

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Important

" Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. "

" One's ignorance is one's chief asset. "

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

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

" It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. "

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

" The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. "

" We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. "

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