It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

God and the imagination are one.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

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

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.