Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

These are the days that must happen to you.

An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems