39 quotes found
“Resist much, obey little.”
“Peace is always beautiful.”
“Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!”
“If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.”
“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
“Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!”
“O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithlessof cities filld with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and...”
“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and ...”
“TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, e...”
“Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”
“Come, said my SoulSuch verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after death invisibly return,Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,There to some group of mates the chants re...”
“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only i...”
“not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.”
“Why should I wish to see God better than this day?I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;...”
“Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be passd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its o...”
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
“This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou love...”
“I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touchd...”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
“For we cannot tarry here,We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers! ”
“Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...”
