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.

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

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.

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