Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
Realism is a corruption of reality.
They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.