My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.