FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts, <br /> The ones known, and the ones unknown--the ones on the stars, <br /> The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, <br /> Wonders as of those countries--the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, <br /> whatever they may be, <br /> Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and <br /> effects; <br /> Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand <br /> provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and <br /> half enclose with my hand; <br /> That contains the start of each and all--the virtue, the germs of <br /> all.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/germs/
