I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.Collection: Poetry
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.Collection: Poetry
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.Collection: Poetry
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.Collection: Time
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneselfCollection: Real
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my wayCollection: Way
Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.Collection: Time
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enoughCollection: Song
You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.Collection: Education
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.Collection: Simple