“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
More from Walt Whitman
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
“When I give, I give myself.”
“I am not to speak to you—I am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone, I…”
“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.”