“The Soul Selects her Own Society”

To be somebody -
Set of opinions
“Song of myself”
Their strong melodious songs
Tradition is discarded
The soul selects her own society
Success
Future
Disposition
Unorthodox
Groundbreaking
Modest means
Colloquialisms
No man instructed me
The soul selects her own
Society
To be somebody
Being simply chronological but not
Convenient
The soul selects her own society

From the poems and biographies of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson