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

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.

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.

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.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

A Wrackspurt . . . They’re invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy,” she said. “I thought I felt one zooming around in here.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

I make a good living doing what I do.