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.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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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.
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