From
Leaves of Grass, by
Walt Whitman:
I hear it was charged against me that I sought to
destroy
institutions,
But really I am neither for nor against
institutions,
(What indeed have I in
common with them? or what with the
destruction of them?)
Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of
these
States inland and
seaboard,
And in the fields and woods, and above every
keel little or
large that dents the water,
Without
edifices or rules or
trustees or any
argument,
The institution of the dear love of
comrades.