Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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

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

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.

Embrace the sacredness of a new day.

If you teach a wolf how to hunt, it will reward you by devouring you.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.