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

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

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.

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

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.