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“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.” ~ Walt Whitman

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/04/8-quotes-for-wild-ones-lost-in-the-unknown/ (via modyoda)

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman (via wordsnquotes)

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Walt Whitman (via wordsnquotes)

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“This is what you shall do; 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 Whitman (via genevieveconstancejones)

a stunning interpretation of Whitman's "Song of Myself"

Hey! Just saw this bit of the Whitman's Song of the open road, hope you don't mind if I ask this silly question about it, I'm studying it in American Litterature, but I don't get who Walt is referring to when he talks about the Companions? Do you? Thanks for any answer!! xx

Thanks for asking!From what I can understand, Whitman is attempting to relate himself (the great "I" of Leaves of Grass) to these unnamed "companions." The French word Allons gives the idea that Whitman is asking for the reader to chase after these epic travelers and follow them in their path through life. He goes on to describe all the great things they have achieved, and praises their masculinity, femininity, seemingly fearless proximity to death.My understanding is that these Great Companions are Whitman's version of the Greek heroes of old: they are the penultimate achievers and explorers of humankind and should be models for our own lives. At the same time, due to his being influenced by the Transcendentalist movement (specifically Ralph Waldo Emerson), it is not too crazy to assume that Whitman believes that these Great Companions inhabit us just as we inhabit them.That is my two cents on the passage, at least.

i don't know who runs this, but you should come back and keep running it.

Unfortunately, the person who mainly ran it had to pass over responsibility to the rest of us lazy folks. I'll get on posting some new stuff here soon, though! I promise. I'll open up submissions as well.

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”If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.” —Walt Whitman

Closer yet I approach you; What thought you have of me, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance; I consider’d long and seriously of you before you were born. Who was to know what should come home to me? Who knows but I am enjoying this? Who knows but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me? It is not you alone, nor I alone; Not a few races, nor a few generations, nor a few centuries; It is that each came, or comes, or shall come, from its due emission, From the general centre of all, and forming a part of all: Everything indicates—the smallest does, and the largest does; A necessary film envelopes all, and envelopes the Soul for a proper time.

--from "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

1863

I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me, In the day, among crowds of people, sometimes they came upon me, In my walks home late at night, or as I lay in my bed, they came upon me.

from "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

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Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass (via wordstoliveanddie)

…I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple–or a green field—a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing—an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness—wonderful as that part of it is. I learned that the poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was needed.

Mary Oliver, on poetry (via lademarche)

I too with my soul and body, We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way, Through these shores, amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman, from “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” (via proustitute)

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A page from Walt Whitman’s manuscript of Leaves of Grass (via; source)

One of Whitman's notebooks

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