"The smallest sprout shows there is really..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?”

“A man can be a hero in any profession”

“I sing the body electric.”

“You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.”

“I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.”

“And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”

“All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.”

“The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.”

“The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.”