Walt Whitman

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about…

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have…

And your very flesh shall be a great poem…

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes…

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends…

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune…

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks…