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

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

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

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.

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

When we realize every moment is sacred, we understand that every footstep is sacred, too.

When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

If you put something together and it doesn't look so good, the fashion police are not going to come and take you away. And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

I voted for you during your last election.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.