To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones
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.
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
What hurts the soul my soul adores.
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul
Weaving olden dances; mingling hands and mingling glances.
tradition gives the one thing many shapes.
rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
How far away the stars seem, and how far Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!
Surely some revelation is at hand.
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work.
A king is but a foolish labourer Who wastes his blood to be another’s dream.
BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.
How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.
I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.
The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all .
Where there is nothing, there is God.
What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.
Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of lovely.