Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
From Wallace Stevens
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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