74 quotes found
Poet · American · 1879–1955
American poet (1879–1955)
“There is a perfect rout of characters in every manand every man is like an actors trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things”
“Consider the odd morphology of regret.”
“The law of chaos is the law of ideas,Of improvisations and seasons of belief.Ideas are men. The mass of meaning andThe mass of men are one. Chaos is notThe mass of meaning. It is three or fourIdeas...”
“The death of one god is the death of all.”
“A change of style is a change of meaning.”
“From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,Oriole, also, may be realist.”
“We say God and the imagination are one . . .How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
“Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”
“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
“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.”
“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.”
“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.”
“We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
“The imagination is man's power over nature.”
“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.”
“Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are th...”
“In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Money is a kind of poetry.”
