I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing as pure objective observation. Your observations, to be interesting, i.e. to be significant, must be subjective. The sum of what the writer of whatever class has to report is simply some human experience, whether he be poet or philosopher or man of science.

As for the sensuality in Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass, ” I do not so much wish that it was not written, as that men and women were so pure that they could read it without harm.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.