"Any form of orthodoxy is just not part of a poet's province … A poet must be able to claim … freedom to follow the vi…"

"Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being … ultimate reality is wha…"

"You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless."

"I lie in the lean hours awake listening to the swell born somewhere in the Atlantic rising and falling, rising and fa…"

"Let despair be known as my ebb-tide; but let prayer have its springs, too, brimming, disarming him; discovering somew…"

"Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipu…"

"I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox."

"I wouldn't say that I'm an orthodox Christian at all and the longer we live in the twentieth century the more fantast…"

"True Christianity at its most profound is as good as you get. … I think I've been lucky in the period which I've live…"

"The nearest we approach God…is as creative beings. The poet, by echoing the primary imagination, recreates. Through h…"