“The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.”

Valuing memory because the past can no longer speak for itself · Foreword, Precious Bane, 1924

• Memory
• Past
• Time

“If you know much about your work – why you work, how you work, your aims – you are probably not a poet.”

Suggesting true poetic work arises beyond conscious calculation · Essay, Poems and the Spring of Joy, 1928

• Creativity
• Instinct
• Poetry

“Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.”

Seeing natural quiet as part of an ongoing rhythm rather than an ending · Essay, The Spring of Joy, 1917

• Continuity
• Nature
• Silence