“Above all things I have striven to keep the book small, for the big books of poetry on our shelves were always left to themselves.”

Arguing that a manageable collection can invite a more intimate relationship with poetry · Prefatory Note, Rainbow Gold, 1922

• Childhood
• 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 reader should be barely conscious of the form, the rhymes or the rhythm.”

Advocating unobtrusive poetic technique · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

• Art
• Music
• Poetry