I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. – Walt Whitman

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. – Walt Whitman
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. – 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
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick
Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of his aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores. – Martin Luther King,Jr., about Ho Chi Minh, Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968