"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 labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.....re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your very soul, and your very flesh shall become a great poem." -- Walt Whitman, from the Introduction to Leaves of Grass
