Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

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.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.