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 cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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

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.