Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'For  John F Kennedy: His Inauguration', 20  Jan. Snow- blindness prevented the agedpoet from reading beyond the first three lines on the occasion.

If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.

-Jerrold, Douglas William
Quoted in Blanchard Jerrold  The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold (1859), ch.14.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For everyatom belonging to me asgood belongs to you.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of Myself', section1.