After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

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 …

To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappea…

This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous. It is in that thought that we collect ourselves, Out of all the indifferences, into one thing

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into …

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

As I hide behind these books I read, while scribbling my poetry, like art could save a wretch like me.