Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
Walt WhitmanThis face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
Walt WhitmanAn individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.
Walt WhitmanCamden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.
Walt Whitman