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

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

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

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

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.