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

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.

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

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 never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

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

I cant 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.

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution

Ignoring a question is as equivalent to ignoring a person.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.