“The poet is called a creator because he creates in an ideal world, according to our desires, what is lacking in the world of reality.” DesirePoetry Book:The Poetic Mind Source: The Poetic Mind
“That man would be completely happy whose desires aroused the appropriate thoughts and activities, and whose activities attained their end in gratification,—between whose desires and experience there was perfect correspondence.” DesirePoetry Book:The Poetic Mind Source: The Poetic Mind
“An image drawn from recent experience may have transferred to it a feeling which first belonged to an experience much older.” PoetryChildhoodMemory Book:The Poetic Mind Source: The Poetic Mind
“Gret works of literature are always developed and enriched from age to age with the growth of thought.” AgeTimeLiterature Book:The Poetic Mind Source: The Poetic Mind