أن أنجو، طليقا، من مراسي الآخرين وأغلالهم! أن أنطلق حرّا! أن أحب حرّا! أن أندفع جسورّا خطرّا! أن أغازل الدمار بالسخرية، بالإغراء! أن أرتفع أن أثب إلى سما… - Walt Whitman

I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada, Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

With the sentiment of the stars and moon such nights I get all the free margins and indefiniteness of music or
poetry, fused in geometry's utmost exactness.