"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."
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes."
"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."
"This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me"
"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."