The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.