Walt Whitman Quote

If there shall be love and content between the father and the son and if the greatness of the son is the exuding of the greatness of the father, there shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science.

Leaves of Grass, Preface to the 1855 edition of "Leaves of Grass" (p.304)