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

“A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.”

“I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.”

“An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.”

“So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.”

“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake”

“With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.”

“In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.”

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.”

“To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!”