Walt Whitman — "I find I am not, in any sense, a literary man."

"I have no doubt that the world is a better place because I am in it."

"I am distrustful of any rules or public customs which interpose barriers between the leaders and the people."

"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…"

"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long."

"I am the sworn poet of the new, modern, democratic man."