“I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you”

“I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”

“Remember my words, I may again return,I love you, I depart from materials,I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.”

“Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

“I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.”

“I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.”

“If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good help to you nevertheless And filter and fiber your blood.Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,Missing me one place search another,I stop some where waiting for you”