I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. – Walt Whitman
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. – Walt Whitman
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman
I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times. – Jane Seymour