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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
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I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
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Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.
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Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.
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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
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O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
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The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.
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The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.
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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
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I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.
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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
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I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems.
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The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.
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If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
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I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.
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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.
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Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.
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Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.
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I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than I have supposed.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.