"We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
-Charles Bukowski

"This Is What You Shall Do:

Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to
anyone 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 towards 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 of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of
every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at church
or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and
your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not
only in it’s words but in the slightest lines of it’s lips and face
and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of
your body."

Preface to the first edition of Leaves Of Grass, 1855
Walt Whitman 1819-1892