This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.