"Just as the gospels and Pauline writings were the Bible of Christianity in the past, so 'Leaves of Grass' would be the Bible of Cosmic civilization in the future"

Portrait of a New York intellectual

“Village radicalism wasn’t a worker’s movement, not really. It was a bohe­mian movement with working-class sympa­thies ... a species of radical bohemianism that ought to be called, after its finest ex­positor, John Reedism.”