Walt Whitman — "I believe in the beauty of all things, and I believe in the beauty of all people…"

"The greatest poem is the one that has yet to be written."

"Sex is the root of it all—the animal want, the eager physical hunger, Sex will not be put aside; it is a great ordination of the universe."

"Filthy to others, to me they are not filthy, but illustrious; while critics consider those subjects from the point of view of persons standing on the lowest animal and infidelistic platform. Which, th…"

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyr…"

"To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless tri…"