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„When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.“
„The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman.“
„O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done!The ship has weathered every wrack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.“
„Each of us inevitable;Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth.“
„Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.“
„Come lovely and soothing death,Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,In the day, in the night, to all, to each,Sooner or later, delicate death.“
„Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love—But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.“
„In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing “base”, a certain game of ball … Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms … the game of ball is glorious.“
„Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.“
„I have just this moment heard from the front — there is nothing yet of a movement, but each side is continually on the alert, expecting something to happen.O Mother, to think that we are to have here soon what I have seen so many times, the awful loads and trains and boatloads of poor, bloody, and pale and wounded young men again — for that is what we certainly will, and before very long. I see all the little signs, getting ready in the hospitals, etc.; it is dreadful when one thinks about it. I sometimes think over the sights I have myself seen: the arrival of the wounded after a battle, and the scenes on the field, too, and I can hardly believe my own recollections. What an awful thing war is! Mother, it seems not men but a lot of devils and butchers butchering each other.“
„I find I’m a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.“
„I said: “Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!” He was hilarious: “That’s beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it’s our game: that’s the chief fact in connection with it: America’s game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.”“
„Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends—leave all in order;To port and hawser’s tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!“
„To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.“
„Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell’d. Study not only their productions. There is a still higher school for him who would kindle his fire with coal from the altar of the loftiest and purest art. It is the school of all grand actions and grand virtues, of heroism, of the death of patriots and martyrs — of all the mighty deeds written in the pages of history — deeds of daring, and enthusiasm, devotion, and fortitude.“
„Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.“
„I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.“
„None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.“
„Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.“
„Yes, Mexico must be thoroughly chastised! Let our arms now be carried with a spirit which shall teach the world that, while we are not forward for a quarrel, American knows how to crush, as well as expand!“
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