"From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master."
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"My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me."
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"Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth! Smile, for your lover comes!"
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"That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world."
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"This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me"
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"Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever."
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"Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees."
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"What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever."
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"Strong and content I travel the open road."
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"Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!"
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"Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me."
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"We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak."
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"I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man."
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"All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it."
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"Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death."
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"There will never be any more perfection than there is now."
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"So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road."
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"You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in."
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"You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here"
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"Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)"
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