p.44
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood
I see that the elementary laws never apologise…
I exist as I am, that is enough
If no other in the world be aware I sit content…
I know the amplitude of time
The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains
of hell are with me.
p.31
Who need be afraid of the merge?
Undrape… you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded.
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass