Walt Whitman

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

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

I exist as I am, that is enough.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.