Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. - Walt Whitman

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

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

"O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,I will have thousands of globes and all time."

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I meanBut I shall be good health to you nonethelessAnd filter and fibre your blood."