You mustn’t forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

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

I can’t look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting

Nothing can justify war.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.