Quote #201

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.

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  2. After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.
  3. Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.
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  6. A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
  7. Let's see the very thing and nothing else. Let's see it with the hottest fire of sight. Burn everything not part of it to ash. Trace the go…
  8. Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

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