O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, You express me better than I can express myself, You shall be more to me than my poem.
啊,大路,我回答你:我并不害怕离开你,可我依然爱你;你比我自己更能表达我,你对我而言,将比我的诗更重要。
— Walt Whitman · Song of the Open Road · Leaves of Grass —