Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
I refuse putting from me the best that I am.
The work for giants...to serve well the guns!
I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles
O amazement of things-even the least particle!
There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!
Most works are most beautiful without ornament.
Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."
I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.
Those who love each other shall become invincible.
I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
My words itch at your ears till you understand them
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.