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.

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

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.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.