I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

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

What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.