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.
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
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.
