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Letter "W" » Walt Whitman
"Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: Advice Experience Wisdom
"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: Age
"On the beach at night,
Stands a child with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
Up through the darkness,
While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter,
And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.
From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,
Watching, silently weeps.
Weep not, child,
Weep not, my darling,
With these kisses let me remove your tears,
The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious,
They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night,
the Pleiades shall emerge,
They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter?
Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?
Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper,
I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)
Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter
Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,
Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: Beauty
"The butcher in his killing clothes."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: Butchering
"Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: Censorship
"Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: Class
"Many a good man I have seen go under."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: Defeat
"Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful
strokes."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: Democracy
"The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: Earth
"In the faces of men and women I see God."
Author: Walt Whitman
About: God
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