To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.