The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Tidak mungkin ada puisi tanpa kepribadian penyair, dan itu, sederhananya, adalah mengapa definisi puisi belum ditemukan.
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.
Menganggap imajinasi sebagai metafisika berarti menganggapnya sebagai bagian dari kehidupan, dan menganggapnya sebagai bagian dari kehidupan berarti menyadari tingkat kecerdasan. Kami hidup di dalam pikiran.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.