Two great quotes -- Hitchens and Whitman
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote:
>
> THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO:
>
> Love the earth and sun and the animals. Despise
> riches, give alms to everyone 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, 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....
>
> --From the preface to "Leaves of Grass"
>
