“Freud … showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.”

The Usurpation Of Language (1910)

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

LaGuardia, Gina (October 2004). "Masiela's Musings". College Bound Teen (USA): p. 2.

A Poets View (1984)
Context: Acknowledgement, and celebration, of mystery probably constitutes the most consistent theme of my poetry from its very beginnings. Because it is a matter of which I am conscious, it is possible, however imprecisely, to call it an intellectual position; but it is one which emphasizes the incapacity of reason alone (much though I delight in elegant logic) to comprehend experience, and considers Imagination the chief of human faculties. It must therefore be by the exercise of that faculty that one moves toward faith, and possibly by its failure that one rejects it as delusion. Poems present their testimony as circumstantial evidences, not as closing argument. Where Wallace Stevens says, "God and the imagination are one," I would say that the imagination, which synergizes intellect, emotion and instinct, is the perceptive organ through which it is possible, though not inevitable, to experience God.

Love and Death (1975)

Source: A Room of One's Own

Vetulani, Jerzy (11 May 2012): Neurobiologia i religia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn559bvUzRE, lecture. Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (in Polish).

I, i, 39
Tristia (Sorrows)

Book III, Chapter 3, p. 374
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)