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"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed."
"There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."
"O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won"
"I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd."
"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."
"O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you."
"All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!"
"The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion."
"O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb! A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee."
"I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold."
"Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary."
"This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat."
"Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence."
"I dance with the dancers."
"The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript."
"Many a good man I have seen go under."
"Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth."
"Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!"
"I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy."
"The beautiful uncut hair of graves."