"Each Of Us..."

“Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless -

each of us with his or her right upon the earth;

Each of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth;

Each of us here as divinely as any is here.”

- Walt Whitman

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"We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars... everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being."

- Thornton Wilder