We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.