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.

Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.