The question, O me! so sad, recurring -
What good amid these, O me, O life?
That you are here - that life
exists and identity,
that the powerful play goes on,
and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Walt Whitman

Mots clés poetry

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To be in any form, what is that?
(round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,)
If nothing lay more develop'd the quahung in it's callous shell were enough.
Mine is no callous shell.
I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
they seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and I am happy, to touch my person to someone else's is about as much as I can stand.

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The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything.

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Walt Whitman

Mots clés family contentment companionship

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Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much?
Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

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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.

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We were together. I forget the rest.

Walt Whitman

Mots clés cute euphoria nostalgic

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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Walt Whitman

Mots clés inspirational world light alone help

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman

Mots clés cosmology

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