Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

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

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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 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.