I say, stamping the words with emphasis, Drink from here energy and only energy - Stephen Spender

All that you can imagine you already know

A poet can only write about what is true to his own experience, not about what he would like to be true to his experience. Poetry does not state truth, it states the conditions within which something felt is true. Even while he is writing about the little portion of reality which is part of his experience, the poet may be conscious of a different reality outside. His problem is to relate the small truth to the sense of a wider, perhaps theoretically known, truth outside his experience.

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.