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.

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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

Nothing can justify war.

Nothing can justify war.

Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the...

Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the...

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one...

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one...

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I...

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I...

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with...

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with...

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can...

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can...