Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
My mind is the pendant, creativity is the chain
I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
No one is born hating others.
I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
