39 quotes found
“Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes...”
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!”
“My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me ...”
“One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, / I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal c...”
“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.”
“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.”
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It is within reach.Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is...”
“Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,High in the purer, happier air.”
“When I Read the Book"When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any...”
“O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,Pioneers! O pioneers!”
“ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”
“Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night!Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!from Strophe 21, "Song of...”
“The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of p...”
“WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleasd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hearit never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothi...”
“One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worth...”
“I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is fai...”
“Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!”
“I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.”
