Reality is a clichรฉ from which we escape by metaphor.
The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.