 The beautiful uncut hair of graves. |
| We convince by our presence. |
| Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. |
| I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. |
| Simplicity is the glory of expression. |
| Be curious, not judgmental. |
| A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. |
| I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. |
| To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. |
| I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. |
| I exist as I am, that is enough. |
| And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. |
| Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. |
| I celebrate myself, and sing myself. |
| Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? |
| The real war will never get in the books. |
| I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. |
| To have great poets, there must be great audiences. |
| The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. |
| When I give, I give myself. |
