There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems

Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

I dance with the dancers.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.