35 quotes
American poet (1879–1955)
“After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.”
"The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become."
on Nature
"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."
on Death
"Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container."
on Philosophy
"I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me."
on Truth
"Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers."
"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
on Life
"Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor."
"The imagination is man's power over nature."
on Creativity
"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
on Faith
"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
on Art
"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
on Imagination
"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
"The poet is the priest of the invisible."
"In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."
"We say God and the imagination are one . . .How high that highest candle lights the dark."
"A change of style is a change of meaning."
"The death of one god is the death of all."
on Religion
"A poem is a meteor."
"Let be be finale of seem.The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."
"The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it."
