Walt Whitman ( 10 of 34 )
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Lo! body and soul!--this land!
Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and
The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the read more
Lo! body and soul!--this land!
Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and
The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;
The varied and ample land,--the South
And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri,
And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.
- Walt Whitman,
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by read more
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful
strokes.
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful
strokes.
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
