I loafe and invite my soul. - Walt Whitman

Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing,

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall... battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won,

As for me, (torn, stormy, even as I, amid these vehement days;) I have the idea of all, and am all, and believe in all; I believe materialism is true, and spiritualism is true — I reject no part. Have I forgotten any part? Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition. I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews; I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god; I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception;