Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me