 I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. |
| You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had. |
| 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. |
| 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 despair of ever writing excellent poetry. |
| Nothing can justify war. |
| 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. |
| Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. |
| I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. |
