It is the belief and not the god that counts.
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
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.
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
Life is the elimination of what is dead.