Nothing can justify war.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

I cant 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 mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

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

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

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 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 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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