Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt WhitmanTags: inspirational advice-for-daily-living positive-attitude
The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor… . How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt WhitmanTags: poet
Long have you timidly waded
Holding a plank by the shore,
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
To jump off in the midst of the sea,
Rise again, nod to me, shout,
And laughingly dash with your hair.
Tags: seize-the-day embrace-life
In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Walt WhitmanTags: empathy compassionate
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt WhitmanTags: inspirational wonder
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt WhitmanDazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
Walt WhitmanAll beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough...the fact will prevail through the universe...but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what you shall so: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body...
Walt WhitmanBleib diesen Tag und diese Nacht mit mir, und du sollst den Ursprung aller Gedichte besitzen,
Sollst besitzen das Gut der Erde und der Sonne, (Millionen Sonnen bleiben noch übrig).
Sollst fürder Dinge nicht mehr nehmen aus zweiter und dritter Hand, noch sollst du sehen durch die Augen der Toten, noch dich nähren von den Schemen in Büchern,
Sollst auch nicht durch meine Augen blicken, noch die Dinge aus meiner Hand nehmen,
Sollst nach allen Seiten lauschen und die Dinge klären durch dich selbst.
(übersetzt von Franz Blei; Hymnen an die Erde)
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