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/ page 588 of 1205 /Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.
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Thou born to match the gale, (thou art all wings,) To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,
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Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,...
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The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.
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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
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I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
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This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven.
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Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,...
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Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
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I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals."
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I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased to the other.
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For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the...
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There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or streching eyeless years, The early lilacs became part of the child, And grass and white and red morning-glories and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird...
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Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,...
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