"The Poet's Corner"

From Walt Whitman's poem

"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

Quoted in the film L.I.E

Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul,)

Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it really to me?

For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you,

Now in a moment I know what I am for, I awake.

…

Never more the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me,

Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before

What there in the night,

By the sea under the yellow and sagging moon,

The messenger there arous'd, the fire, the sweet hell within,

The unknown want, the destiny of me."