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- p. iii, line 2AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics […]
- p. iii, line 87[…] opening of the western continent by discovery and what has transpired since in North and South America were less […]
- p. iv, line 28[…] them also from east to west and reflects what is between them. On him rise solid growths that offset […]
- p. iv, line 105[…] equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is […]
- p. iv, line 106[…] land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him […]
- p. v, line 39[…] by him but never the power of attack. What is past is past. If he does not expose superior […]
- p. v, line 41[…] by every step he takes he is not what is wanted. The presence of the greatest poet conquers . . . not […]
- p. v, line 59[…] any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What the eyesight does to the rest he does to the […]
- p. v, line 67[…] and books of the earth and all reasoning. What is marvellous? what is unlikely? what is impossible or baseless […]
- p. v, line 68[…] the earth and all reasoning. What is marvellous? what is unlikely? what is impossible or baseless or vague? after you have once […]
- p. v, line 117[…] his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals […]
- p. vi, line 30[…] and persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress […]
- p. vi, line 78[…] with the laws that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must surely be there and the clue […]
- p. vi, line 84[…] joined. The greatest poet forms the consistence of what is to be from what has been and is. He […]
- p. vi, line 85[…] the consistence of what is to be from what has been and is. He drags the dead out of […]
- p. vi, line 94[…] exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond . . . . he glows a […]
- p. vi, line 95[…] man can tell what they are for or what is beyond . . . . he glows a moment on the extremest verge […]
- p. vii, line 26[…] hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate […]
- p. vii, line 29[…] snow has and be as regardless of observation. What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without […]
- p. vii, line 53[…] understand us, We are no better than you, What we enclose you enclose, What we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there could […]
- p. vii, line 59[…] of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. What do you think is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments […]
- p. vii, line 99[…] the structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or is uttered they sent the seed of the […]
- p. viii, line 1[…] educed out of it departs as a dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws […]
- p. viii, line 21[…] tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and to the soul. For […]
- p. ix, line 90[…] of life, nor in that condition that follows what we term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or […]
- p. x, line 31[…] the thought of the prudence suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the thinness of a year or […]
- p. x, line 38[…] is of itself . . . . all else has reference to what ensues. All that a person does or thinks is of […]
- p. xi, line 25[…] perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to […]
- p. xi, line 43[…] and makes the present spot the passage from what was to what shall be, and commits itself to the representation of this […]
- p. xii, line 29[…] use to me today here? I know that what answers for me an American must answer for any individual […]
- p. 13, line 2And what I assume you shall assume,
- p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
- p. 15, line 15Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
- p. 15, line 18Looks with its sidecurved head curious what will come next,
- p. 16, line 7A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
- p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
- p. 17, line 1What do you think has become of the young and old men?
- p. 17, line 2And what do you think has become of the women and children?
- p. 17, line 8And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
- p. 18, line 10What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,
- p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
- p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,
- p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
- p. 21, line 14What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me,
- p. 21, line 33What is removed drops horribly in a pail;
- p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
- p. 25, line 22What is a man anyhow? What am I? and what are you?
- p. 26, line 7All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
- p. 26, line 22I laugh at what you call dissolution,
- p. 27, line 20You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
- p. 28, line 2What blurt is it about virtue and about vice?
- p. 28, line 8I step up to say that what we do is right and what we affirm is right . . . . and some is only the ore of right,
- p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,
- p. 31, line 3My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
- p. 31, line 22And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.
- p. 32, line 19To be in any form, what is that?
- p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
- p. 33, line 12You villain touch! what are you doing? . . . . my breath is tight in its throat;
- p. 33, line 24What is less or more than a touch?
- p. 33, line 27Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
- p. 33, line 28Only what nobody denies is so.
- p. 34, line 11And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
- p. 35, line 12Swift wind! Space! My Soul! Now I know it is true what I guessed at;
- p. 35, line 13What I guessed when I loafed on the grass,
- p. 35, line 14What I guessed while I lay alone in my bed . . . . and again as I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
- p. 42, line 26What the rebel said gaily adjusting his throat to the rope-noose,
- p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,
- p. 42, line 28What stills the traveler come to the vault at Mount Vernon,
- p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
- p. 42, line 30What burnt the gums of the redcoat at Saratoga when he surrendered his brigades,
- p. 43, line 22The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it . . . . or to any graves,
- p. 44, line 19Say old topknot! what do you want?
- p. 44, line 21And might tell what it is in me and what it is in you, but cannot,
- p. 44, line 24What I give I give out of myself.
- p. 45, line 2You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
- p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
- p. 45, line 21I heard what was said of the universe,
- p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,
- p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;
- p. 47, line 21What I do and say the same waits for them,
- p. 48, line 6Sermons and creeds and theology . . . . but the human brain, and what is called reason, and what is called love, and what is called life?
- p. 49, line 3And what is yet untried and afterward is for you and me and all.
- p. 49, line 4I do not know what is untried and afterward,
- p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.
- p. 49, line 19The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate?
- p. 50, line 3What have I to do with lamentation?
- p. 50, line 18They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
- p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
- p. 53, line 28They and all would resume what I have told them.
- p. 55, line 4There is that in me . . . . I do not know what it is . . . . but I know it is in me.
- p. 55, line 16Listener up there! Here you . . . . what have you to confide to me?
- p. 56, line 7You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
- p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
- p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?
- p. 58, line 6Why what have you thought of yourself?
- p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;
- p. 58, line 13What is there you cannot give and take?
- p. 59, line 6I bring what you much need, yet always have,
- p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,
- p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?
- p. 59, line 19I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
- p. 61, line 1All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;
- p. 61, line 3All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
- p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,
- p. 61, line 15What is seen or learned in the street, or intuitively learned,
- p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:
- p. 61, line 18(What is it that you made money? what is it that you got what you wanted?)
- p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;
- p. 62, line 15Glassblowing, grinding of wheat and corn . . casting, and what is cast . . tinroofing, shingledressing,
- p. 63, line 22I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile . . . . I do not advise you to stop,
- p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,
- p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
- p. 67, line 6The vulgar and the refined . . . . what you call sin and what you call goodness . . to think how wide a difference;
- p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
- p. 67, line 16What will be will be well—for what is is well,
- p. 69, line 6What is the earth? what are body and soul without satisfaction?
- p. 69, line 21What is called good is perfect, and what is called sin is just as perfect;
- p. 71, line 11I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
- p. 72, line 8Be careful, darkness . . . . already, what was it touched me?
- p. 72, line 17And am curious to know where my feet stand . . . . and what is this flooding me, childhood or manhood . . . . and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.
- p. 73, line 7What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves?
- p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,
- p. 76, line 6What is arrived is in its place, and what waits is in its place;
- p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?
- p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,
- p. 81, line 24Who knows through the centuries what heroes may come from them?
- p. 83, line 11Some milknosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.
- p. 84, line 4And I knew for my consolation what they knew not;
- p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,
- p. 85, line 5I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,
- p. 86, line 4Nothing for any one but what is for him . . . . near and far are for him,
- p. 86, line 10What can be answered he answers, and what cannot be answered he shows how it cannot be answered.
- p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,
- p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
- p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?
- p. 89, line 16What troubles you, Yankee phantoms? What is all this chattering of bare gums?
- p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
- p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
- p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
- p. 92, line 12I cannot say to any person what I hear . . . . I cannot say it to myself . . . . it is very wonderful.
- p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
- p. 93, line 18What the best and worst did we could do,
- p. 93, line 19What they felt . . do not we feel it in ourselves?
- p. 93, line 20What they wished . . do we not wish the same?
- p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,
- p. 94, line 7Great is the earth, and the way it became what it is,
- p. 94, line 21Great is the English speech . . . . What speech is so great as the English?
- p. 94, line 22Great is the English brood . . . . What brood has so vast a destiny as the English?
- p. 95, line 5It is immutable . . it does not depend on majorities . . . . majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.
- p. 95, line 12I do not know what it is any more than I know what health is . . . . but I know it is great.