One must read poetry with one's nerves.
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
Money is a kind of poetry.
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.