“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,   And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”      “The future is no more uncertain than the present.”     “These are the days that must happen to you.”    “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”       “Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”    “Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”      “This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”        “When I heard the learn’d astronomer;   When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;   When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;   When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the    lecture-room,   How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;   Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,   In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,   Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”       “But where is what I started for so long ago?   And why is it yet unfound?”     “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”      “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.   Healthy, free, the world before me.   The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose.   Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune.   Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.”     “You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,   But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,   And filter and fibre your blood.   Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,   Missing me one place search another,   I stop somewhere waiting for you.”     “after you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”       “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”    “You will hardly know who I am or what I mean”       “it makes such difference where you read”    “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 yourself.”       “A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.”   “I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,   I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”       “I tramp a perpetual journey.”      “O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,    The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,    The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,    While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;    But O heart! heart! heart!    O the bleeding drops of red,    Where on the deck my Captain lies,    Fallen cold and dead.    O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;    Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills,    For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths - for you the shores    a-crowding,    For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;    Here Captain! dear father!    This arm beneath your head!    It is some dream that on the deck,    You've fallen cold and dead.      My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,    My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,    The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,    From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;    Exult O shores, and ring O bells!    But I with mournful tread,    Walk the deck my Captain lies,    Fallen cold and dead.”            “have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”