Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Quotes

The impalpable sustenance of me from all things, at all hours of the day, The simple, compact, well-joined scheme – myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated, yet part of the scheme, The...

It avails not, neither time or place – instance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, I project myself – also I return ̵...

Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face. (line 2)

Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you are to me! On the ferry-boats, the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,...

These, and all else, were to me the same as they are to you, I project myself a moment to tell you – also I return. (lines 50-51)