Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.