Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.