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...
- Walt Whitman