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Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

  • Katia Alvarezhas quoted3 years ago
    Ever the mutable,

    Ever materials, changing, crumbling, re-cohering,

    Ever the ateliers, the factories divine,

    Issuing eidolons.
  • celine darlinghas quoted9 years ago
    Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat,
    Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not
    even the best,
    Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
    I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
    How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
  • Danny Talbothas quoted11 years ago
    O Me! O Life!
    O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring,
    Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
    Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I,
    and who more faithless?)
    Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the
    struggle ever renew'd,
    Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see
    around me,
    Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
    The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
    Answer.
    That you are here—that life exists and identity,
    That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
  • Enya Almanzahas quoted2 days ago
    Love, that is all the earth to lovers—love, that mocks time and space,
    Love, that is day and night—love, that is sun and moon and stars,
    Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume,
    No other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
  • Enya Almanzahas quoted4 days ago
    Pleasantly and well-suited I walk,
    Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good,
  • Enya Almanzahas quoted7 days ago
    Wandering, yearning, curious, with restless explorations,
    With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts,
    With that sad incessant refrain, Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and
    Whither O mocking life?
  • Enya Almanzahas quoted7 days ago
    Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?
    The earth to be spann'd, connected by network,
    The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,
    The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near,
    The lands to be welded together.
  • Enya Almanzahas quoted19 days ago
    These States are the amplest poem,
    Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations
  • Enya Almanzahas quoted19 days ago
    All is eligible to all,
    All is for individuals, all is for you,
    No condition is prohibited, not God's or any.
  • Enya Almanzahas quotedlast month
    Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
    As souls only understand souls.
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