I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Nothing can justify war.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?