I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. – Walt Whitman
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. – Walt Whitman

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. – Walt Whitman
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. – Walt Whitman
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. – Walt Whitman
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy. – Gary Saul Morson, The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel, 2012