"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle"
"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"
"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 United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem"
"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws"
"The real war will never get in the books"
"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it"
"Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle"
"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul"
"Produce great men, the rest follows"
"Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people"
"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me"
"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself"
"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"
