"I have no doubt that the universe is a gigantic poem."

"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced an…"

"I am the sworn poet of the new, modern, democratic man."

"Nothing is ever ended, everything is always beginning."

"Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far."