“No poet, in his greatest imaginings, could conceive of anything greater than the real;”

“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?”

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”

“The poet is a king in his realm. His is empire of imagination, in which there are unlimited mansions.”

“His poems, even in English, seem to me finer than anything currently being written by any English or American poet.”

“For the poet, the imagination is paramount, and... he dwells apart in his imagination, as the philosopher dwells in his reason, and as the priest dwells in his belief … The imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.”

“And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.”

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog”

“He was a great poet" They lamented.

No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?”

“He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.”