“I send forth this little book with scant expectance of immediate success.”

Expressing modest expectations while entrusting her work to future readers · Preface to her Collected Poems (1902)

• Fame
• Hope
• Poetry

“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

“Each of us also has some private niche, some inconsiderable intimate shrine, for the poet no one praises, who is all the more our own.”

Celebrating the private affection readers form for poets overlooked by wider fame · Preface to her Collected Poems (1902)

• Fame
• Friendship
• Poetry