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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

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Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

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When I give I give myself.

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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

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I accept reality and dare not question it.

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

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