And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish’d breasts of melons. And as […]
These are the days that must happen to you. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
It is time to explain myself… let us stand up. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
There are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary… the road is before us! It is safe… I have tried it. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me… leading wherever I choose. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
This is the meal equally set, this is the meat for natural hunger, it is for the wicked just the same as the righteous, I make appointment with all, I will not have a single person slighted or kept away. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, no birth, identity, form — no object in the world, nor life, nor any visible thing; appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain. Ample are time and space — ample the fields of Nature. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior? Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
