Song of myself Quotes

“I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;”

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

“I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you”

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”

“To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!”

“Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. ”

“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,They scorn the best I can do to relate them.”

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”