惠特曼(Walt Whitman, 1819 – 1892)：

You have not known what you are.

You have slumbered upon yourself all your life.

Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time.

What you have done return already in mockeries.

The mockeries are not you.

Underneath them and within them I see you lurk.

你不瞭解自己。

只因你一生沈睡。

你的雙眼一直緊閉。

你做的一切只得到譏諷。

但那並不是真實的你。

你已將真實的你深深藏匿。 

這是電影「草葉」（Leaves of Grass）中引用的一段詩句；片名和詩人的名著同名。