From Walt Whitman

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 or families - re-examine
all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and 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.

From the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass

The line breaks are mine :-)