Walt Whitman

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

"Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)"

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"

"Songs of myselfClear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn."

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

"I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,"

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."