I am what is around me.
After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.
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.
Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
The imperfect is our paradise.
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.
Poetry is the scholar's art.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
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