I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.... - Walt Whitman

"the old name absorbs into me — MANNAHATTA, "the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.

is that the President? Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep,

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.