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Poets to ComePOETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;But you, a new brood, native, at...more

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In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street and every one is signed by God's...more

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I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one th...more

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Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…

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In the faces of men and women I see God.

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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing thei...more

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Why should I wish to see God better than this day?I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,In the faces of men and wo...more

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One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing,...more

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I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.

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What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, ...more