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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.   Poetry
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.  
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of n...  
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have ear...  
Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman wi...  
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and ev...  
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has mad...  
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in...  
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the know...  
Money is a kind of poetry.  
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really rep...  
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are fa...  
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many mor...  
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.  
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!  
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is ...  
The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but ...  
The imagination is man's power over nature.  
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.  
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes a...  
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of ...  
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, togeth...  
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditation...