I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. Votes: 10
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live. Votes: 8
Nothing can justify war. Votes: 7
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. Votes: 6
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. Votes: 6
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. Votes: 5
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. Votes: 5
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. Votes: 4
Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last. Votes: 3
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 Votes: 2
The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever. Votes: 2
You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had. Votes: 2
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. Votes: 0
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough Votes: 0
You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had. Votes: 0
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way Votes: 0