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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art.
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 the bottom.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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.
Money is a kind of poetry.
Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.