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

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

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.

My dear Keats go on, don't despair, collect incidents, study characters, read Shakespeare and trust in Providence.

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.

I really think the Bible is a baseline where all stories come from. All of the zillion stories in the Bible provide inspiration for everything.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

One who wants to wear the crown, bears the crown.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water.