Evolution never looks to the future.
The future is purchased by the present.
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Prose talks and poetry sings.
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear! ("The Jelly-Fish")
Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As the light of the satellite fell on my face my mind cleared, and I knew what was to be done. ("Absolute Evil")
Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... ("...
Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.
Creativity is a continual surprise.
Doubt is the father of invention.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
I'm not a great poetry fan.
