And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
From Walt Whitman
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
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