"The past, the future, majesty, love -..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.”

“From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.”

“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”

“Choose a self and stand by it.”

“For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.”

“What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.”

“I love Humanity but I hate humans”

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

“You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.”