A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

Oh captain my captain

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.