"I sing the body that is electric!..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life”

“But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.”

“Resist much, obey little.”

“The hardest victory is the victory over self.”

“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”

“two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.”

“There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.”

“I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.”

“You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.”