Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

Thought tends to collect in pools.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.