And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
We convince by our presence.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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 believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
The real war will never get in the books.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
best, God & being good
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
best, God & being good
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.