“... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.”

“it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the good will of its inhabitants.”

“The poet wishes to strike beautiful notes, not new notes... To ask or expect a poet to strike a new note in poetry is exactly like asking or expecting the Nightengale to strike a new note in her perennial song.”

“For however strong you may be in respect of your army, it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the good will of its inhabitants.”

“The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”

“Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,..”