"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
"The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing."
"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
"Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling."
"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
"Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it."
"Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?"
"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
"do i contradict myself? very well then i contradict myself, (i am large, i contain multitudes.)"
"Either define the moment or the moment will define you."
"The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give."
"This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven."
"If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred."
"I exist as I am, that is enough."
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
"now i see the secret of the making of the best persons. it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
