Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.