I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
Walt WhitmanFailing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.
Walt WhitmanGod is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
Walt WhitmanRe-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 Whitman