Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
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.
I dance with the dancers.
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
Strong and content I travel the open road.
I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time
Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!
What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.
But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.
We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
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