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Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

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Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

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But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?

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If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

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I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

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If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

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Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

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Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

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not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

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Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.

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Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

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There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

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I and this mystery, here we stand.

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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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