I have heard
what the talkers were talking,
the talk of the
beginning and the end,
But I do not talk
of the beginning or the end.

There was never any more inception
than there is now,
Nor
any more youth or age
than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection
than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell
than there is now.

Urge and urge and urge,
Always
the procreant urge of the world.
- Walt Whitman