“Yet, like all poets, I trust these little songs may find an audience to-morrow: they have that saving virtue of sincerity which is the salt of Art.”

Placing faith in sincerity and in the possibility of recognition by future readers · Preface to her Collected Poems (1902)

• Hope
• Poetry
• Truth

“The chapel of the Minor Poet may be too small to admit the crowd; it may be thronged when three or four are gathered together. None the less, it has its use and place.”

Celebrating the intimate bond between lesser-known poets and their devoted readers · Preface to her Collected Poems (1902)

• Fame
• Friendship
• Poetry

“But if I see the necessary grace that they possess, how clearly, alas! do I perceive the magnificent qualities they lack!”

Balancing confidence in her work with an unsparing awareness of its limitations · Preface to her Collected Poems (1902)

• Art
• Poetry
• Truth