Tell me a story of deep delight.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.