lines that resonate:

walt whitman

• do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself; (I am large, I contain multitudes)

william wordsworth

• the entirety of "the world is too much with us; late and soon"

pablo neruda

• you enquire about the kingfisher’s feathers, which tremble in the pure springs of the southern tides? or you’ve found in the cards a new question touching on the crystal architecture of the sea anemone, and you’ll deal that to me now? you want to understand the electric nature of the ocean spines?

bliss carman

• there is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir/we must rise and follow her/when from every hill of flame/she calls and calls each vagabond by name