From Whitman to the Beats and beyond — the voice of the New World.
Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
— Sylvia Plath
"Kiss me, and you will see how important I am."
I, too, sing America.
— Langston Hughes
"I, too, sing America."
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
— Walt Whitman
"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot..."
If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know ho…
— Maya Angelou
"If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be..."
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit …
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has g..."
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
— Emily Dickinson
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
"Forever is composed of nows."
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.
— Edgar Allan Poe
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
I dwell in Possibility — a fairer House than Prose.
"I dwell in Possibility — a fairer House than Prose."
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
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