“The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.”| The Marginalian
“I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion.”| The Marginalian
“Give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!.. Give me the streets of Manhattan!”| The Marginalian
“There is something in personal love, caresses, and the magnetic flood of sympathy and friendship, that does, in its way, more good than all the medicine in the world.”| The Marginalian
“America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without… Always inform yourself; always do the best you can; always vote.”| The Marginalian