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- p. 20, line 24Think nothing can ever be greater, nothing can ever deserve more than it deserves,
- p. 24, line 20And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
- p. 24, line 22And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death,
- p. 25, line 11How can the real body ever die and be buried?
- p. 27, line 16For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.
- p. 39, line 6They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
- p. 39, line 10I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
- p. 45, line 11I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
- p. 46, line 19Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.
- p. 47, line 11The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
- p. 52, line 11To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
- p. 58, line 25No guard can shut me off, no law prevent me.
- p. 63, line 19The flames spite of all that can be done flickering aloft and below,
- p. 66, line 11You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
- p. 70, line 17Each who passes is consider'd, each who stops is consider'd, not a single one can it fail.
- p. 72, line 26And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.
- p. 73, line 4There is no stoppage and never can be stoppage,
- p. 73, line 24Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
- p. 75, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?
- p. 75, line 18No shutter'd room or school can commune with me,
- p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
- p. 76, line 19Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
- p. 77, line 13If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
- p. 90, line 15The hubb'd sting of myself, stinging me as much as it ever can any one,
- p. 93, line 22Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
- p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
- p. 96, line 18You are often more bitter than I can bear, you burn and sting me,
- p. 106, line 21It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain,
- p. 111, line 2O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
- p. 121, line 20They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,
- p. 122, line 16You express me better than I can express myself,
- p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
- p. 125, line 9I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
- p. 132, line 26Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?
- p. 133, line 1What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I approach?
- p. 135, line 12What can be answer'd he answers, and what cannot be answer'd he shows how it cannot be answer'd.
- p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
- p. 142, line 8Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
- p. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
- p. 148, line 2To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand!
- p. 153, line 20What is your money-making now? what can it do now?
- p. 158, line 25The dame of dames! can I believe then,
- p. 158, line 30I, my friends, if you do not, can plainly see her,
- p. 173, line 13Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more?
- p. 175, line 20When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again,
- p. 178, line 27No one can acquire for another—not one,
- p. 178, line 28Not one can grow for another—not one.
- p. 179, line 10There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the theory of the earth,
- p. 188, line 20Here too, though long represt, can never be destroy'd,
- p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
- p. 208, line 1Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves spreading and spreading far as the eye can reach,
- p. 208, line 6Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay,
- p. 212, line 22Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,
- p. 231, line 18You can walk old man, though your eyes are almost done,
- p. 237, line 6Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
- p. 244, line 15Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb'd,
- p. 252, line 17And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes,
- p. 264, line 10I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated,
- p. 264, line 26There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
- p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
- p. 269, line 17In war he is the best backer of the war, he fetches artillery as good as the engineer's, he can make every word he speaks draw blood,
- p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?
- p. 271, line 24Can your performance face the open fields and the seaside?
- p. 272, line 10America justifies itself, give it time, no disguise can deceive it or conceal from it, it is impassive enough,
- p. 275, line 3For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master.
- p. 285, line 20O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
- p. 285, line 21How can you be alive you growths of spring?
- p. 285, line 22How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
- p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
- p. 299, line 9And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
- p. 302, line 21Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman can a man be form'd of perfect body,
- p. 303, line 1Unfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my poems come;)
- p. 303, line 2Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,
- p. 303, line 8First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.
- p. 305, line 8And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
- p. 305, line 9And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
- p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
- p. 321, line 1O we can wait no longer,
- p. 326, line 23Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,
- p. 328, line 18I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.
- p. 336, line 14The law of drunkards, informers, mean persons, not one iota thereof can be eluded.
- p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
- p. 349, line 12How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of the future?
- p. 351, line 19The FUTURE only holds thee and can hold thee.
- p. 355, line 15Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
- p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
- p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
- p. 396, line 1Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
- p. 414, line 16Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee?
- p. 426, line 15[…] peremptory than I am. Behind all else that can be said, I consider "Leaves of Grass" and its theory […]
- p. 426, line 21[…] nothing less than a hundred years from now can fully answer. I consider the point that I have positively […]
- p. 428, line 4[…] vivification—which the poet or other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life […]
- p. 428, line 14[…] stormy rush and haste of nebulous forces—never can future years witness more excitement and din of action—never […]
- p. 428, line 29[…] been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule or convention ever so absolutely obtain but some […]
- p. 433, line 23[…] any rate for our occasions, our day) there can be no such thing as a long poem. The same […]
- p. 433, line 29[…] enterprise and questionings positively shaped themselves (how best can I express my own distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy […]
- p. 434, line 38[…] profoundest service that poems or any other writings can do for their reader is not merely to satisfy the […]
- p. 435, line 38[…] and depictions from the Iliad to Shakspere inclusive can happily never again be realized—but the elements of courageous […]
- p. 436, line 37[…] which only a genuine diagnosis of serious cases can be built. And in respect to editions of " Leaves of […]
- p. 436, line 41[…] hereby prohibit, as far as word of mine can do so, any elision of them […]
- p. 437, line 13While I can not understand it or argue it out, I fully believe […]
- p. 437, line 36[…] Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated from without; it carries its own counterpoise, and […]