The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. – Walt Whitman
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. – Walt Whitman
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman