Quotes from book

Fulles d'herba

“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!”

“Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”

“The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.”

“There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.”

“Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.”

“Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”

“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”

“My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.
I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them”

“I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name.”

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

“Resist much, obey little.”

“I refuse putting from me the best that I am.”

“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls.”

“Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.”

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

All seems beautiful to me.

Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.”

“I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.”

“If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.”

“I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw,
It alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder.”