“In selecting the poems for the girl and boy who used to be, I have tried always to read with their eyes.”

Describing an imaginative return to childhood as her principle of selection · Prefatory Note, Rainbow Gold, 1922

• Childhood
• Memory
• Poetry

“The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings.”

Connecting poetic creation with buried memory and feeling · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

• Memory
• Poetry

“The things that matter most are the things that cannot be held in the hand.”

Pointing towards the value of memory, feeling, and imagination · Journal and correspondence, commonly attributed

• Memory
• Truth