Walt Whitman — "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over…"

"Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you."

"Expurgate, expurgate, expurgate! I've heard that till I'm deaf with it."

"A man is not a whole man without a woman... and a woman is not a whole woman without a man."

"If I had cut sex out I might just as well have cut everything out. The bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were those lines omitted. The full scheme would no longer exist—it woul…"

"Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and insult you, and smite you?"