I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

Are you the new person drawn toward me?

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.