Whoever degrades another degra...

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

We arrange our lives-even the ...

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

Most works are most beautiful ...

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

Seasons pursuing each other th...

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

With music strong I come, with...

With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. 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. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

Give me such shows - give me t...

Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

Either define the moment or th...

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Ah little recks the laborer, <...

Ah little recks the laborer,
How near his work is holding him to God,
The loving Laborer through space and time

I permit to speak at every haz...

I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy

To behold the day-break!

To behold the day-break!
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate.

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Day by day and night by night ...

Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

Sure as the most certain sure ...

Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

Sex contains all, Bodies, Soul...

Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

A murmuring, fateful, giant vo...

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 limbsЂ'out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and timeЂ'chant, not of the past only, but of the future...

Why are there men and women th...

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

And as to you Death, and you b...

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips Ђ' I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Sweet, sane, still Nakedness i...

Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! Ђ' ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has no

Forsake all inhibitions, Pursu...

Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

I am the poet of the woman the...

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

To me, every hour of the light...

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.