Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance.

Clouds pass in
my notorious eye
but you, through
all, I see.

— Frank O’Hara, from “A Hill”

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay