Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

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

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.

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.