I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

I am large, I contain multitudes

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.