Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.