I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
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.
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.
My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.
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.
I am large, I contain multitudes
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
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.
Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.
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