Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
I loafe and invite my soul.
storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.
There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.
You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you are, I give it especially to you; So long!And I hope we shall meet again.
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