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Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
It is never the thing but the version of the thing.
Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.
Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.
Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.
Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.
Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.
The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.
Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.
The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.
We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.
Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.
It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.