“Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

“I am large, I contain multitudes”

“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.”

“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translateinto a new tongue.”

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

“I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.”