The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
I am what is around me.
It is the belief and not the god that counts.