“I travelled alone, in spite of the civilities of other tramps, who desired company, so as to allow no strange voice to disturb my dreams.”

Presenting solitude as a necessary shelter for imagination · Autobiography, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

• Hope
• Solitude

“They make literature a mask to hide their real personality, and how can they expect to attain that strength which only comes through honesty and sincerity?”

Arguing that lasting literary strength depends upon personal honesty · Autobiography, Later Days

• Art
• Poetry
• Truth

“If I am not immortal as a poet, I shall be immortal as the greatest literary fraud of the twentieth century.”

A characteristically self-mocking joke about literary immortality · Autobiography, Later Days

• Fame
• Mortality
• Poetry