Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
Walt WhitmanWe consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.
Walt WhitmanHave you reckonโd a thousand acres much? have you reckonโd the earth much? Have you practisโd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
Walt WhitmanA man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
Walt Whitman