The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

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 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.

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.