I exist as I am, that is enough.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

Oh captain my captain

I hate commas in the wrong places.

That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.