• "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats
• "Poema Siete" by Pablo Neruda (from Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada)
• "Young Sea" by Carl Sandburg
• "Sonnet 23" by William Shakespeare
• This excerpt from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?

Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?

Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems"