From
Leaves of Grass, by
Walt Whitman:
Forms, qualities, lives,
humanity,
language, thoughts,
The ones known, and the ones
unknown, the ones on the stars,
The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
Wonders as of those countries, the
soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, whatever they may be,
Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and effects,
Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in
a handful of space, which
I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
That containing the start of each and all, the
virtue, the
germs of all.