The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule. - Walt Whitman

I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

[From the preface to Leaves Grass]