Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.