"O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?"
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"I accept reality and dare not question it."
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"The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am."
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"A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future."
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"The work for giants...to serve well the guns!"
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"When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear."
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"Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
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"Whoever degrades another degrades me."
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"Where the earth is, we are."
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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
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"As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances."
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"I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words."
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"Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you are, I give it especially to you; So long!And I hope we shall meet again."
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"Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul."
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"I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds."
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"There is no God any more divine than Yourself."
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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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"People who serve you without love get even behind your back."
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"The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them."
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"Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over."
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