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"You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk."
"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
"Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling."
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
"I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."
"Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love."
"By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught."
"I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you."
"I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
"Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead."
"The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse."
"There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest."
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."
"O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done."
"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person."
"I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness."
"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me."
"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."