We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

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

I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.

I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.