I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

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

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.