The chief trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation of Humanity and Nature — the mood out of which he contemplates hi… - Walt Whitman

Crezco por igual en las regiones vastas y en las estrechas, crezco por igual entren los negros y los blancos.

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.