Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Next to love is the desire for love.
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.