Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.
Do anything, but let it produce joy.
Poets to ComePOETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,Aro...
Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.
I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I meanBut I shall be good health to you nonethel...
When I give I give myself.
In the faces of men and women I see God.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
I tramp the perpetual journeyMy signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no philosophy, I lead no man to...
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of...
The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.
Song of myselfI am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff'd with the stuff...