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.

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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...

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

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...

Nothing can justify war.

Nothing can justify war.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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.

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.

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 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...

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself...

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself...

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.