Walt Whitman

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven.