“Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.”
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
