Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live. |
Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the choked soul stretched weak hands To reach the living word the far wheels said, The blood-dazed intelligence beating for light, Crying through the suspense of the far torturi |
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. |
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. |
I don't think I knew what real poetry was till I read Keats a couple of years ago. |
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. |
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. |
It is true I have not been killed or crippled, been a loser in the stocks, or had to forswear my fatherland, but I have not quite gone free and have a right to say something. |
It's really my being lucky enough to bag an inch of candle that incites me to this pitch of punctual epistolary. I must measure my letter by the light. |
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. |
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. |
You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had. |