“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”
“To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
“Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”
“When I give I give myself.”
“We convince by our presence.”
“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”
“The beautiful uncut hair of graves.”
“Produce great men, the rest follows.”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”
“I accept reality and dare not question it.”
“Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.”
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
“I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.”
“How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!”
“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”
“All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.”
“Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.”
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
“I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.”
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”