This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the
stupid and crazy, devote your income and labour to others, hate
tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence
towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or
unknown, or to any man or number of men, go freely with
powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the
mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season
of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at
school, or church, or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your
own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the
richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its
lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every
motion and joint of your body.
– Walt Whitman
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