Journalist Quotes

“We were together. I forget the rest.”

“Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.”

“Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.”

“storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.”

“Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.”

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.”

“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

“Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems”

“Where the earth is, we are.”

“I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;But I saw they were not as was thought;They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.”

“So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.”

“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”

“I will not descend among professors and capitalists.”

“Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.”

“There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.”

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.”

“The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.”

“The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.”

“I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.”

“O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?”

“Those who love each other shall become invincible.”

“I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.”

“We convince by our presence.”

“My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.”

“I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.”