“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
“And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.”
“Scientist alone is true poet.”
“Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon”
“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.”
“The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.”