The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again. - Wallace Stevens

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.